On Mon, Feb 16 2009, Arne Goetje wrote:
> pabs wrote:
>> ttf-arphic-*
>>
>> These don't appear to be used by the installer. Subscribers of the
>> debian-chinese-* lists, could you give any information about if these
>> fonts are still useful?
>
> They are useful for printing and AFAIK the current latex-cjk (or was it
> cjk-latex?) use those fonts. Further more, the ttf-arphic-{uming|ukai}
> fonts are derived from those. So, I guess we should keep them for a while.
>AFAIK, some programs and documents still uses hard-coded font names and latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-* still build-depends on these fonts. So I suggest we should keep them, too. >> They need a new maintainer, would any of you like to join the Debian >> fonts team and adopt these packages? > > I can maintain them (and I am a member of the Debian fonts team). > Arne has very good knowledge of handling fonts and is familiar with Arphic fonts, he is the best choice :) - Kanru
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