Dear all, Debian has several packages containing fonts with an OpenType MATH table. These fonts are used by some TeX engines and are often strongly connected to TeX packages. However, they are also used by some Web engines: For example, they are recommended for MathML in Gecko 31 and higher [1] and WebKit. Actually, the issue about the lack of an independent package for Latin Modern has recently been discussed on the webkit-dev mailing list [2]. Of course, other applications (say, LibreOffice) could in theory use them to render mathematical expressions... Hence it would make sense to have Debian packages independent from the TeX packages. That's the case for two of these font families (Asana and STIX which are included into fonts-oflb-asana-math and fonts-stix respectively). For others, I noticed that: 1) Some of them (Latin Modern, TeX Gyre Bonum, TeX Gyre Pagella, TeX Gyre Schola, TeX Gyre Termes) have a separate packages (fonts-lmodern and fonts-texgyre) but for some reason they still depend on tex-common. 2) Others (Libertinus, XITS) are included inside the texlive-fonts-extra package and so you can not install them without also installing various TeX stuff. So I wonder whether there is any plan to package these fonts independently from TeX? Do any TeX/font maintainers have something against this idea? Thanks, Frédéric Wang [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/Fonts [2] https://lists.webkit.org/pipermail/webkit-dev/2016-March/028068.html
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