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

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

Dear Jacko,

thanks for your answer and time

> The fonts in the OTF format, however, we considered "new" ones
> (note, e.g., that they have Unicode tables and that they are equipped
> with the OTF typografic features, both absent from the original
> Adobe fonts) and, therefore, following Adobe's recommendations
> for the glyph naming in new fonts (see the mentioned by Karl

Agreed.

> 2. Does it make really sense to make a step
> backward and revert to the old-style names in the OTF

No. I disagree here. Poppler should be fixed.

> TeX Gyre fonts (including TeX Gyre Math)? It is feasible,
> but we are rather reluctant to introduce such a change,

Indeed, and I do *not* want you to make this step.

As Kalr pointed out, either we leave it like it is now, and
get poppler do be reasonable, or adding another fake glyph fi/f_i,
but not changing names, this is not a good idea.

Norbert

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