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Richard Atterer <atterer@debian.org> wrote:
> Package: texlive-fonts-recommended
> Version: 2007-10
> Severity: minor
>
> Hello,
>
> texlive-fonts-recommended contains the following files related to Lucida
> Bright fonts:
>
[...]
> All this suggests that it is possible to use Lucida Bright under Debian.
> However, I get errors trying to use the font (e.g. typesetting lucfont.tex
> above). After googling for hours, I am still scratching my head - could it
> be that the font is non-free and thus not supported?
Yes - this should probably be fixed by including
CTAN://fonts/psfonts/bh/lucida/doc/fonts/lucida/readme.lucida:
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| This distribution contains the TeX fonts metrics, virtual
| fonts and LaTeX font definition files for the Lucida
| Bright and Lucida New Math fonts.
|
| This file set does, however, NOT include:
|
| * the actual Type 1 fonts (*.pfb, *.pfm, *.afm);
|
| * LaTeX macro packages to support math typesetting.
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> After all, there's no
> trace of any hls* file in any of the TeX packages. Then why are these files
> present??
Like some other support files for non-free fonts, they are present in
order to allow those who have bought these fonts to easily use them with
TeX.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
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