Bug#720953: Bug#742767: fonts-texgyre: Termes font in does not render ligatures in evince
Hi Fabian,
last September on your suggestions we have changed the fontconfig
hinting for tex-gyre.
Now Roland (in cc, as well as both bugs) seems to have found
an incompatibility which might require a rethinking.
I would like to ask your opinion on this matter.
Thanks for any comments
Norbert
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Roland Haas wrote:
> Package: fonts-texgyre
> Version: 2.004.2-4
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> * What led up to the situation?
> Updating the system so that fonts-gyrex is used as a replacement for Times.
> Possibly due to changes in fontconfig priorities.
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> Opening a pdf file containing fi or fl ligatures.
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> fi and fl ligatures do not render correctly, they show up as whitespace but can
> be copied and pasted fine.
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
> fi and fl should show up.
>
> This is the same bug (I think) as reported on freedesktop's bug tracking
> system:
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291
>
> where also a link to a sample pdf file is provided.
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
>
> Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages fonts-texgyre depends on:
> ii dpkg 1.17.6
> ii tex-common 4.04
>
> fonts-texgyre recommends no packages.
>
> fonts-texgyre suggests no packages.
>
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On Thu, 27 Mar 2014, Roland Haas wrote:
>
>
> Hello Norbert,
>
> > On Wed, 26 Mar 2014, Roland Haas wrote:
> >> fi and fl ligatures do not render correctly, they show up as
> >> whitespace but can be copied and pasted fine.
> >
> >
> >> From what I read at the freedesktop bug this is a problem with
> >> the
> > poppler libs ... I *really* don't understand what is the bug here
> > in the texgyre fonts?
> The issue seems to be that the Termes font uses the wrong name for the
> fi and fl ligatures. See comment 7
>
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291#c7
>
> I am not sure if it the responsibility of the render (poppler) to map
> both fi and f_i to the same glyph. Apparently there was some
> uncertainty if this is a poppler bug
> (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291#c14) but
> eventually was marked as being an issue with the font (last comment
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291#c17 ).
>
> According to the comments in there the ligature shows up in gv since
> gv prefers the gsfonts fonts over gyretex.
>
> Yours,
> Roland
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