Bug#363061: tetex-extra: palatcm.sty is non-free

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:

> Sure. And I'll try to document how to find such things.

Thanks for the explanation!

> Starting point is /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/palatcm/palatcm.sty.
> In there different symbol fonts for the font family 'pplcm' are defined
> with encodings OT1, OML, OMS, and OMX. In order to use these font
> families, LaTeX will look for files named <encoding><family>.fd. All
> these files are in the same directory, and that's all that is there:
>
> $ ls /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/palatcm/
> omlpplcm.fd  omspplcm.fd  omxpplcm.fd  ot1pplcm.fd  palatcm.sty  

This far I got, too.

> These files define the mapping between LaTeX fonts names and TeX
> (virtual) fonts. The following TeX (virtual) fonts are referred to:
>
> zpplcmrm zpplcmbm zpplcmry zpplcmby zpplcmrv zpplcmr zpplcmb

The other instances of \DeclareFontShape don't point to a font?  Like 

\DeclareFontShape{OMS}{pplcm}{l}{n}{<->ssub * pplcm/m/n}{}

Is this just a declaration to substitute pplcm/l/n with pplcm/m/n?

> Summary, the following directories (relative to TEXMFDIST) have to be
> removed together with their content:
>
> fonts/tfm/adobe/mathppl
> fonts/vf/adobe/mathppl
> tex/latex/palatcm

Thank you,

Frank
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Frank Küster
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