Bug#616419: tex-gyre: Please register in fontconfig as metric compatible alternatives to the Adobe Fonts

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Package: tex-gyre
Version: 2.004.1-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

according to the project home page, the TeX Gyre Fonts are (mostly) metric
compatible replacements for the 35 base Postscript fonts by Adobe. However, the
fonts are not registered with fontconfig as such, while other similar
alternatives like the URW fonts are. This means, that fontconfig will still
select the ugly Type1 Nimbus Sans font for rendering a web page in a browser -
when this web page has requested to be rendered in Helvetica - although there
is a hinted alternative available in Opentype format that is TeX Gyre Heros.
Fontconfig simply does not know there is a more suitable alternative for screen
viewing available.

Please add a fontconfig file that registeres the TeX Gyre fonts as alternatives
to the Adobe fonts. If you think this should be implemented by fontconfig
itself, feel free to reassign this request.

 - Fabian



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (501, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages tex-gyre depends on:
ii  defoma                        0.11.12    Debian Font Manager -- automatic f
ii  dpkg                          1.15.8.10  Debian package management system
ii  tex-common                    2.08       common infrastructure for building
ii  xfonts-utils                  1:7.6~1    X Window System font utility progr

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