[Pkg-fonts-devel] [debian-devel:18177] Re: MBF: fonts-*-gothic: fonts-japanese-* is not registered as virtual package

[Youhei SASAKI]

Hi,

At Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:02:19 +0900,
Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:10:22AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> > On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 20:55:27 +0900
> > Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> > > I am wondering the value of having ttf-japanese-* these days since we
> > > are moving toward fontconfig.
> >
> >  fontconfig doesn't help to handle with fonts in TeX or so.
> >  Then, I provide this fonts-japanese-*, it doesn't relate to defoma.
>
> Which tex?  TTF using tex is XeTeX.  XeTeX uses fontconfig as I
> understood. DDP documents use XeTeX now.
>
> pTeX (ptex-jtex etc.) may be different.  But then maybe provide specific
> help to ones requiring .. probably like  dvi2ps-fontdata-ja ...

TeXLive (>= 2011) already uses "updmap-sys" for Japanese font
configuration. Thus fonts-japanese-* will be not needed if TeXLive
packages are updated.

AFAIK, fonts-japanese-* is currently needed about ghostscript[1]. The
ghostscript's fontconfig support is very limited. So the
"gs-cjk-resource" package provides templates about Fontmap/cidfmap and
update script.

[1] http://wiki.debian.org/gs-undefoma

How to handle Fontmap/cidfmap, especially aliases?

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In Japanese:
TeXLive(>= 2011) が入れば, updmap-sys でフォント実ファイルを指定して切り替え
るようになるので, fonts-japanese-* は不要でしょう.

Squeeze 以降で用いられている Ghostscript のフォント指定はどうしましょうね.

Best Wishes,
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