Nobody is talking about responsibility or blame. Actually, everyone is
extremely grateful for and appreciative of everything you have done and are
doing with FreeFont!
The 2012 version of the fonts is seriously broken for Devanagari users.
But it's co-installed with several other TeX Live package
Hi all,
I understand both sides. I will try to put some clarification.
It is not true that GNU FreeFont cannot be uninstalled from TeX Live
without removing a lot of packages. The magic is to use the -force
switch. It will uninstall just the font without taking dependences
into account and when o
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
Steve, you have done a lot of work, the Devanagari block is functional
and the glyphs are beautifull. One of my books was typeset with
FreeSans and highly educated readers in India like it. Thus I believe
that the result of your work should be somehow accessible to normal
2014-12-18 12:08 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor :
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>
> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>> Steve, you have done a lot of work, the Devanagari block is functional
>> and the glyphs are beautifull. One of my books was typeset with
>> FreeSans and highly educated readers in India like it. Thus I believe
>> that the r
Dear all,
As a matter of interest, what is broken in the SVN version of the Gnu
FreeFonts that is not broken in the current 2012 release version? I mean,
what sorts of difficulties should users be looking out for if they use the
SVN release?
Best,
Dominik
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2014-12-18 13:55 GMT+01:00 Dominik Wujastyk :
>
> Dear all,
>
> As a matter of interest, what is broken in the SVN version of the Gnu
> FreeFonts that is not broken in the current 2012 release version? I mean,
> what sorts of difficulties should users be looking out for if they use the
> SVN relea
Zdenek Wagner wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the building concept. All fonts are built
somehow.
I agree. But in 99.999% of cases, that building is conducted by the
font designer, developer or distributor. The average user ("B. L.
User", as Knuth would term him) not only does not know
2014-12-18 15:11 GMT+01:00 Philip Taylor :
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>
> Zdenek Wagner wrote:
>
>> There is nothing wrong with the building concept. All fonts are built
>> somehow.
>
>
> I agree. But in 99.999% of cases, that building is conducted by the font
> designer, developer or distributor. The average user ("B. L
