Re: Building font packages for TeX & friends

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

uwe@steinmann.cx (Uwe Steinmann) wrote:

>> Perhaps there is a Debian tool to do this already. Otherwise, I am happy to 
>> plod on and pass you my Perl script (for what it is worth) as my little 
>> contribution to the marvellous work that you are doing.
> tex-fontconfig may be what you are looking for. The current version
> at sourceforge isn't up to date, but you can either check out the one
> from the cvs or I can provide a debian package.
> tex-fontconfig is able to create debian source packages from a list
> of type1 or ttf files. The source package includes everything to make
> the font available for TeX/LaTeX

There is also make-texfontpkg by Ralf Stubner at this address:

  http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-tex/make-texfontpkg/trunk/?rev=0&sc=0

Not sure how usable/finished/up-to-date it is, but Ralf will probably
comment, since he reads this list.

-- 
Florent