Re: latex-cjk, texlive, and TeX Policy
On Mit, 28 Dez 2005, Danai SAE-HAN wrote:
> > > * c90enc, garuda and norasi are provided in latex-cjk-thai.
> >
> > Does that mean that you will replace the thailatex package, which
> > provides tfm, afm and pfb files for garuda and norasi?
>
> latex-cjk-thai depends on thailatex because of the .pfb Type1 and
> Adobe Font Metrics, but it provides its own TFM files, because the
> ligatures that CJK uses are incompatible with those of thailatex.
> They are named differently (in CJK: fgdb8z, ftnb8z, etc., according to
> Karl Berry's `fontname' scheme).
Hmm, this will pose a big problem for me, as this package is still using
the old layout (/etc/texmf/map/...), which doesn't work with texlive
package. I guess I have to add a hack (like in tetex3) that this works.
And then, I have a lot of conflicts (texlive-fonts-extra and
texlive-omega) with thailatex, don't remember why, I have to investigate
this.
Let's hope that someone updates thailatex soon.
> > thailatex seems
> > to be basically unmaintained, and I have not yet provided a complete
> > patch for all issues it has because there are a couple of things in it
> > that worry me.
>
> Chanop was in the middle of writing a thesis a few months ago and was
> very busy. I don't know about now though. I too am a bit concerned
> about the piling up of bugs in fontforge and thailatex.
Grmmm, as I said. ATM I really fear that doing the texlive stuff the
Debian way (slicing out, depending on other packages) really creates
more problems than gains.
Gains: Less load on the servers
Problems: I cannot ensure proper function of other packages with texlive
while people installing normal texlive would get a working
system in any case.
Frank, Danai, is it really THAT necessary to have it this way? Will the
texlive packages *never* pass the ftpmaster if I don't do the permanent
slice out?
With the removal of texlive-lang-cjk I will get problems, via the above
chains. Grmpf.
Best wishes
Norbert
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