Bug#568109: [Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2013-09-09 Thread Fabian Greffrath
> as far as the xfonts-scalable package is concerned, if you want fonts > to be added in there, the best way to go is reporting bugs upstream: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ I tried to raise some interest in this topic upstream, but honestly, I doubt there is enough incentive to adapt to the ne

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2012-10-08 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am 08.10.2012 02:47, schrieb Norbert Preining: Ah, now I remember the old story ... thanks for digging out that. Yes, there are problems with that, and AFAIR they have never been resolved. So I guess the best is to either convince gs people to use proper handling of font names, or to keep the fo

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2012-10-07 Thread Norbert Preining
On Sa, 06 Okt 2012, Fabian Greffrath wrote: > Am Samstag, den 06.10.2012, 22:04 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > > It might not be as easy as it seems. I have once witnessed an argument > > on some mailing list between TeX and Ghostscript people about who is the > > right "authority" to host the 3

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2012-10-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Samstag, den 06.10.2012, 22:04 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > It might not be as easy as it seems. I have once witnessed an argument > on some mailing list between TeX and Ghostscript people about who is the > right "authority" to host the 35 Postscript core fonts. ;) Related: http://tug.org

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2012-10-06 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Samstag, den 06.10.2012, 08:07 +0200 schrieb Christian PERRIER: > From your summary, I think the ideal move is having X.org upstream > drop this font from their distribution ("picking" it from CTAN has no > logic: if it lives on CTAN, it should be provided by TeX-related > software, not by X.org

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2012-10-06 Thread Christian PERRIER
(dropping individuals from CC list) Quoting Fabian Greffrath (fab...@greffrath.com): > Back to topic: We should either take Adobe Utopia from CTAN and add it > to xfonts-scalable or add a fontconfig file to texlive-fonts-recommended > that registers this font with fontconfig (that's be five lines

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2012-10-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Am Freitag, den 05.10.2012, 17:22 +0200 schrieb Fabian Greffrath: > Rogério is right, Adobe Utopia is free software. It is already > included in in > the font-adobe-utopia-type1-1.0.4.tar.gz tarball, which includes the > following license i

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2012-10-05 Thread Fabian Greffrath
Hi all, Cyril Brulebois : as far as the xfonts-scalable package is concerned, if you want fonts to be added in there, the best way to go is reporting bugs upstream: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ Rogério is right, Adobe Utopia is free software. It is already included in

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2011-04-03 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi, Rogério Brito (02/02/2010): > Package: xfonts-scalable > Version: 1:1.0.1-1 > Severity: normal > > One thing that is interesting to note is that Utopia is present in > Type 1 format in the texlive packages, but it seems that texlive > doesn't register the fonts with X, as they are installed

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2010-02-17 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mi, 17 Feb 2010, Rogério Brito wrote: > Is there any place where I could get a summary of the discussion? Of No summary, just the bug report: 478704 there is some discussion and comments on how to implement and problems. > Honest questions (not rhetorical, not ironic): What are the difficult >

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2010-02-16 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Norbert and Co. On Feb 03 2010, Norbert Preining wrote: > On Di, 02 Feb 2010, Rogério Brito wrote: > > 1 format in the texlive packages, but it seems that texlive doesn't > > register the fonts with X, as they are installed in a directory > > other > > That is right, and there was some recent

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2010-02-02 Thread Norbert Preining
On Di, 02 Feb 2010, Rogério Brito wrote: > 1 format in the texlive packages, but it seems that texlive doesn't > register the fonts with X, as they are installed in a directory other That is right, and there was some recent discussion about this how to make the texlive packages register fonts with

Bug#568109: xfonts-scalable: Utopia has been Free software for a good amount of time

2010-02-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Package: xfonts-scalable Version: 1:1.0.1-1 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-CC: pkg-fonts-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org, debian-tex-ma...@lists.debian.org Hi. I am intereted in fonts for some time (I am interested in Typography and fonts are one obvious aspect of it). Having been playing with XeTeX,