Bug#363061: tetex-extra: palatcm.sty is non-free
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
>> The fd files in the same directory don't have any copyright or license
>> statement at all; don't know whether they need one.
Even worse, they contain the statement:
%Filename: <whatever>
%Created by: tex fontplcm
%Created using fontinst v1.335
But there's no file "fontplcm" anywhere, only
ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source/mathpple/fontplcme.tex
(note the additional e) which doesn't seem to be related.
>> And I don't know whether this package is still useful today at all...
>
> I don't think so. There are better ways to get math for palatino. T1
> encoding is not supported. I guess these files are only in there for
> compatibility with (really) old documents.
texlive doesn't have that relict.
> BTW, the way these files are arranged in different directories is really
> odd:
>
> STY and FD in TEXMF/tex/latex/palatcm
> TFM and VF in TEXMF/fonts/{tfm,vf}/adobe/mathppl/
>
> However, in TEXMF/tex/latex/mathpple (note the 'e'), there are old FD
> files for getting Helvetica scaled to 95%, while mathpple.sty is an
> obsolete styfile from PSNFSS located in TEXMF/tex/latex/psnfss. I don't
> claim to understand this mess.
Do you know if that mess originates from the CTAN locations, or is it
only in teTeX?
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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