Re: scalable-cyrfonts and font naming
Hi Karl, hi Anton,
(I forgot to include the original bug report, now included)
On Sa, 17 Mär 2012, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Norbert,
>
> Free Times, Free Helvetian, Free Helvetian Condensed, Free Courier,
> Free Avant Garde, Free Paladin, Free Schoolbook, Free Bookman,
> Free Chancery, Teams and OldSlavic.
>
> Those names seem awfully generic, and there are some trademarks in
> there ... anyway ...
I agree.
> Now that creates a clash that is sub-optimal.
>
> Not just suboptimal. Completely unacceptable. Conflicts would make
> both fonts sets unusable, in practice.
Also here I agree.
> fpl: TL package fpl: SC and OsF fonts for URW Palladio L
> shipping the fonts
> TL package psnfss: shipping fpl maps
> fnc: TL package fouriernc:
>
> I see no magic bullet here. We can't create a conflict. So either the
> fpl and fnc authors change their names, the cyrfonts authors change
> their names, or we omit at least those two cyrfonts from TL. Right?
These cyrfonts are *NOT* in TeX Live at all, neither in upstream nor
in Debian TeX Live. It is a separate package in Debian.
> I have no way of knowing how widely used the TeX fpl and fnc are, but I
> expect they have been used in *some* documents. Therefore I would feel
> bad about renaming them. Since they have been in TL for some years, I
> feel they should have priority on the names ...
I agree that since the other fpl/fnc fonts are in TL since long time,
we will not change there names.
So we simply leave this bug open, and I will probably add a conflict
against scalable-cyrfonts-tex as it breaks behaviour of the tex system.
Best wishes
Norbert
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