Re: What are the correct (font) dependencies for div-to-X converters?
Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) <danai.sae-han@edpnet.be> wrote:
> If someone uses dvi2ps, s/he will have to know for himself how the TeX
> file was processed, and what fonts were used. These could be
> Morisawa, ptex-jisfonts, etc. We can't know for sure. They could
> even use locally installed fonts that are not packaged for Debian, or
> come under a different font name (e.g. differences between Linux
> distro's).
Thank you, Danai.
> So if you have to depend on fonts, I would suggest to depend only on
> the package that includes "dvips", i.e. either texlive-base-bin or
> tetex-bin. I think that in this regard, dvi2ps (and dvipng) should be
> treated the same way as dvips.
>
> You might add something in the package description clarifying that DVI
> conversion tools also need to have the same fonts as the original
> author used. That's all one can do, IMHO.
Well, I'm not going to do anything of the above. It's just that I found
that dvi2ps and dvipng depend only on tetex-base, and thus don't
guarantee that the infrastructure for finding fonts is there: Instead of
"foo not found" you'll get "mktexpk: No such file or directory". That's
a RC bug IMO, and I wanted to suggest a sane alternative. I guess it's
"texlive-bin-base|tetex-bin".
Regards, Frank
--
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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