Bug#742767: TeX Gyre OpenType and wrongly(?) named glyphs

[Fabian Greffrath <fabian@greffrath.com>]

Hello again,

Am Mittwoch, den 02.07.2014, 16:32 +0200 schrieb Boguslaw Jackowski: 
> Having thought the matter over and having looked into TG Linux packages, 
> we would suggest to use, anyway, Type 1 TG as legacy fonts and to change 
> appropriately the content of packages -- and maybe names? ;-)

This won't be that easy, I am afraid. The aliasing of Times <-> Termes
has already made it into fontconfig upstream (modulo a just recently
added comment around these lines motivated by the very issue we are just
discussing here):

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/fontconfig/tree/conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf#n80

This means, that every application using fontconfig (which shuold be
close to 100% on the Linux desktop) that requests a font compatible to
"Times" for rendering will get passed Termes instead by fontconfig.
Please note that the font's names are written as e.g. "TeX Gyre Termes"
which does only apply to the OpenType fonts and not to the Type 1 fonts,
which are called like "TeXGyreTermes", i.e. without the additional
blanks. It will take at least one stable release cycle of each major
distribution to get this mess cleaned up, I am afraid.

*
For the sake of compatibility -- even if it was not initially intended
that way -- couldn't we simply add the two missing ligature glyphs under
their "old-style" names for the time being and be done with it, please?
* 
Hans:
> I think that for that embedding the times and so is kind of mandate 
> nowadays. 

Isn't Times one of the fonts that are by definition of the PDF standard
explicitely not required to get embedded?

- Fabian