Bug#570901: Bumping up severity; any progress in this bug?
Hi Danai and all,
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:35:28 +0100, Danai SAE-HAN (韓達耐) wrote:
> On 10 March 2010 03:15, Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
updmap will update map files for general TeX output drivers,
i.e. not only dvipdfmx but also other drivers like dvips etc.
But dvips doesn't support the format of pTeX fonts so it will
cause problems with, at least, dvips.
As I wrote in a previous email, dvipdfmx is exceptional because
it is in a standard TeX (like TeXLive) but supports pTeX fonts also.
Of course, it is no problem to modify configuration files for
dvipdfmx only but I'd like to suggest it is safe not to treat
pTeX fonts with updmap etc.
So if you never think to use updmap etc. it's okay.
I might be too much worrying.
Best regards, 2010-3-11(Thu)
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Debian Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda AT debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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