Re: cm-super for Debian, problems with tetex

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Ralf!

On Fre, 26 Aug 2005, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> > avantgar, bookman, helvetiv, etc are the URW fonts.
> 
> In that case the phrase 'Macro package for TeX (the most popular)' is a
> bit missleading. :-) BTW, is it the fonts only (pfb, afm), or are these
> the tfm/vf, too?

afm, tfm, vf, pfb, fd

> > fpl is in texlive-fontsextra
> 
> The same goes for charter. Both belong to the fonts required by PSNFSS,
> so they ought to be in texlive-fontsrecomended IMO, together with the
> other PSNFSS fonts. In addition, since texlive-latex installs PSNFSS, it

Ok, I will discuss this with TeX live.

> should at least Suggest/Recommend texlive-fontsrecomended. In addition,

Doesn't it?

> mathpazo.sty is the recommended way of using the FPL fonts, and that is
> in texlive-mathextra, although it is also part of PSNFSS. Grrr....

Hmm, strange. I will take a loog at it.

> [Actually one could argue that charter/fpl/pazo are more important than
> the LW35 fonts, since the latter are not needed for dvips.]

Well, don't argue with me, that is how it is ATM in TeX live, but it is
only a matter of telling me and we fix the collection-XXX.tpm. Thus also
the debian packages.

> > No, I would add a Replace: texlive-XXXX
> 
> But that would uninstall texlive-fontsrecomended, no? BTW, looking at

No, it would replace FILES from texlive-fontsrecommended.

> http://tug.org/texlive/Debian/pool/Packages.gz I see in texlive-fontsextra
> 
> garamond -- URW Garamond No8 Postscript Type 1 fonts.

tfm and vf, but this can be handled too with Replaces, or I can leave
this out.

Generally as soon as we have a decent install mechanism for commercial
fonts, I could leave out all these tfm/vf stuff for them from the
texlive packages and tell the users to use the mk-fontpack stuff to
generate a decent debian package.

> However, this means that my garamond-no8 package should not work
> together with texlive-fontsextra. :-(

Replace:

Best wishes

Norbert

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