Bug#742767: TeX Gyre OpenType and wrongly(?) named glyphs
Dear friends,
Am Montag, den 30.06.2014, 13:15 +0200 schrieb Boguslaw Jackowski:
> we are more than happy that the TeX Gyre collection
> of fonts has been have been chosen as a default
> font set in Debian distribution. And we are
they are not installed by default, that is. But once they are installed,
they take precedence.
> 1. What about using Type 1 fonts for "compatibility purposes"?
> It seems to us taht it could be the simplest "patch", provided
> the font rendering engines are able to handle conveniently
> "obsolete" Type 1 fonts.
We have chosen to use the OpenType fonts for text rendering, because
they are generally considered to be better rendered on screen.
> 2. Does it make really sense to make a step
> backward and revert to the old-style names in the OTF
> TeX Gyre fonts (including TeX Gyre Math)? It is feasible,
> but we are rather reluctant to introduce such a change,
> as it is likely to cause fuss among TeX Gyre users.
There is a very interesting comment by Miguel Sousa in the second
article you posted:
> In addition to what John wrote, you'll need to have two additional
> glyphs, named fi and fl, that are duplicates of 'f_i' and 'f_l'. These
> two additional glyphs should be encoded as FB01 and FB02,
> respectively. The reason for having to include these glyphs (named and
> encoded this way) is because they are part of the MacRoman character
> set.
>
Maybe it will already be sufficient to add those two glyphs. To be
honest, these two were the only ones that caught my attention in the
sample PDFs provided in the bug reports.
- Fabian
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