Re: duplication of stix

[eythanweg@gmail.com (Eythan Weg)]

Hi there,

Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de>
Fri, 1 Jun 2012 23:05:58 +0200

   On 29.05.12 Norbert Preining (preining@logic.at) wrote:
   > On Fr, 25 Mai 2012, Eythan Weg wrote:
   
   Hi,
   
   > > Just an alert that otf-stix and texlive-fonts-extra  contains the
   > > same font.
   > 
   > Now I see ... I would have caught that long time ago, because I generate
   > the list of replacements via the lintian warnings, but lintian does
   > not give a warning for these fonts, because the file names are different.
   > 
   > Uggg.
   > 
   > That needs a lot of handwork ... will see
   > 
   The changelog of texlive-extra (2012.20120529-1) reads:
   
     <snip>
     * don't ship STIX fonts, but link from fonts-stix and depend on it
   
   I'll remove that, OK?

I wonder about the need for those  links if latex and context 
can access system fonts directly.
   
   H.
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Eythan