Bug#448100: texlive-base: Added ams fonts to be used by grace.
On 04.08.08 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:
> On Mo, 04 Aug 2008, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
Hi,
> > Norbert, regarding the packaging: I guess I have to append the
> > three files to each other, rename the resulting file
> > texlive-base.hints and put it into
> > texlive-new/texlive-base/debian. The dh_installdefoma command has
> > to go into texlive-new/all/debian/rules.in, right?
> >
> > What else is needed to make grace/X11 etc. aware of the fonts? Is
> > registering them to defoma sufficient?
>
> Puuuh, I have honestly forgotten all that stuff. Probably best is to
> look into svn/lmodern/trunk/debian/rules, let's see what we find:
>
> For plain X we need a
> texlive-what-bin-package.scale
> in lmodern we create that from the defoma-hints file, see there.
>
> Also from that file we create a
> texlive-what-bin-package.fontlist-x11
>
> Then we have to set up links, because X11 neets the fonts and I mean
> .pfb and .afm files in the same place. So eg putting all the links into
> /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/.
>
> Then we have to copy the .scale file to /etc/X11/fonts/Type1 and call
> dh_installxfonts, and also dh_installdefoma.
>
For now I'd suggest only to register these fonts to defoma. Creating
links in /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/ would need another new package
...-x11 and lenny is frozen. Putting the hints file into the package
and call dh_installdefoma should not hurt and could bring some gain
for users.
H.
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