Bug#720953: fonts-texgyre: bump fontconfig hinting to 31 to win over inferior gsfonts

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Hi Fabian,

with your newest package installed, and ...

> fontconfig: /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf

That one activated instead of 70-yes-bitmaps.conf I get:

* first the fonts form TeX Live 
  uhvr8a.pfb: "Nimbus Sans L" "Regular"
  ..

* then the fonts from fonts-gsfonts...
  n019003l.pfb: "Nimbus Sans" "Regular"
  ...

* then TeX Gyre
  texgyreheros-regular.otf: "TeX Gyre Heros" "Regular"

* then some ttf fonts of arial etc etc and other stuff

> That's the copy of Helvetica in texlive-fonts-recommended that is
> symlinked into /usr/share/fonts.

Should I remove that in the future? I guess ....

> > So a bit a different order. What might be the reason for that?
> 
> I am not sure, but I have an idea. It has to do with the order in which

I dn't know, but I have also fonts.local:
<fontconfig>
        <dir>/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/opentype</dir>
        <dir>/usr/local/share/texmf/fonts/type1</dir>
        <dir>/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/adobe</dir>
        <dir>/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/nowacki</dir>
        <dir>/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/gust</dir>
</fontconfig>

But that should not interfere with the helvetica settings.

> 30-fonts-texgyre-aliases.conf config file has to be moved to slot 32.
> Else, we can wait until fonts-urw-base35 has replaced gsfonts, then the
> problem will disappear because of the ordering of the fontconfig config

Hmm, but I have installed all the .debs I got from from the fonts-gsfonts
package ..., so it should be fixed, right?

> Complicated, isn't it? But I hope I could somehow shed some light on
> this issue [personally, it helped me a lot to write it down and read
> through it again ;)].

It is mind boggling ...

Norbert

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