Bug#570901: Bumping up severity; any progress in this bug?
Hi
On 10 March 2010 03:15, Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 01:52:30 +0900, Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> wrote:
>
>> On Mo, 08 Mär 2010, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote:
> (snip)
>>> I was just thinking how we could use the current Debian infrastructure
>>> such as dh_installtex instead of directly modifying the dvipdfmx file.
> (snip)
>> Of course we can create a new variant, update-dvipdfmx and add
>> support for it in dh_isntalltex ...I mean, it is simply copying of
>> code in the already present script, well, probably some more, but
>> what the hack.
>>
>> But do we need that?
>
> Some comments from my side.
> Basically it is safe to consider that fonts for pTeX are
> NOT fonts for standard (or normal) TeX so it is not right way
> to treat them with standard TeX tools like updmap etc., IMHO.
I tend to disagree here. The format of the font does not matter: just
the way of hooking up fonts in dvipdfmx.cfg matters here, I think.
> There is a project called ptexlive in Japan which extends
> many standards TeX tools (like updmap etc.) to support fonts
> for pTeX, which implys one can't use updmap for pTeX fonts.
>
> In fact TFM for pTeX is not a standard TFM but modified version
> of TFM (called JFM) and VF for pTeX is also in the same situation.
Just as above: not the format of the font is important, but the fact
that it needs a few entries in dvipdfmx.cfg.
> But dvipdfmx is very special in this point of view. It is in a
> standard TeX and supports also pTeX (from the beginning?) but it
> needs a special configuration for pTeX.
dvipdfmx doesn't need a special configuration for pTeX; just a few
entries for some fonts to get CID working. Or did I miss something?
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 02:12:25 +0900, YOSHINO Yoshihito wrote:
>
>> Note that the patch to restore DVIPDFMx.cnf proposed in the first post
>> is still needed to look for cmap files.
>
> If this is not fixed yet I think this could be fixed
> by ptex-jisfonts so we can file a bug to ptex-jisfonts.
>
> Also please note that dvipdfmx can read a map file with
> option "-f map_file", perhaps you all know this.
>
> I hope this might help you.
I didn't know this. That is indeed an option.
Best regards
--
Danai
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