Hello everybody Op 19-05-08 16:23, schreef Norbert Preining: > > On Mo, 19 Mai 2008, "Danai SAE-HAN (?????????)" wrote: >>> for Lenny we'd like to stop supporting two freetype packages in the >>> archive. In this case your package build-depends on freetype1-tools. > > freetype1-tools ships quite some interesting and usefull stuff, esp. all > the ttf2XXX stuff. Why do you actually want to remove them without a > proper replacement? I agree. For CJK, the .sfd are the most important files. There are also the ttf2* packages as you mention. A tool like ttf2tfm is used in quite a lot of scripts. It is extremely fast to handle TrueType fonts, but it will produce only subfonts of mediocre quality (and it will create PK fonts every time you use a glyph from a yet unused table of the TTF, littering your ~/.texmf/ directory). Although I strongly promote the use of Fontforge (or XeLaTeX, that I have recently discovered), I would still suggest to keep the freetype1-tools package for people who use some of the HOWTO's or scripts found on several CJK websites (such as the script by Edward Lee). Removing freetype1-tools wouldn't be a very great loss for me personally as a packager or user, but it might be for quite a lot of users. Best regards -- Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) 題目:《寒食》 作者:王禹偁（９５４－１００１） 今年寒食在商山，山里風光亦可憐： 稚子就花拈蛺蝶，人家依樹系秋千。 郊原曉綠初經雨，巷陌春陰乍禁煙。 副使官閑莫惆悵，酒錢猶有撰碑錢。
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