[Pkg-fonts-devel] Unicode Font

[Dirk Hünniger]

On 06/18/2012 10:02 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Dirk Hünniger wrote:
>
>> The Point is that the LaTeX devolopers won't change it. And I would like to
>> publish my open source project, which depends on beeing able to use full
>> unicode in LaTeX. Would it be Ok to include these fonts in the my main
>> package.
> Do you have any more details? Link to discussions about the LaTeX bug,
> which project you want to publish?
Essentially the development of the main LaTeX compiler pdflatex, that is 
used by basically everybody has stopped a few years ago. I recently 
discussed the unicode issue with the german tex mailing list.

http://www.listserv.dfn.de/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1206&L=tex-d-l

I want to publish the following project:

http://de.wikibooks.org/wiki/Benutzer:Dirk_Huenniger/wb2pdf

> If you really can't convince LaTeX folks with a patch, then I would
> suggest you make your build process depend on the fonts you want to
> merge, find the paths of the fonts at build time using fontconfig
> (fc-match), automatically create the merged font at build time from
> the fonts you want to merge, do whatever you need to do with the
> merged font and then do not ship the merged font anywhere.
The merged font is needed at runtime. So it needs to be shipped.
> You should also make sure that the resulting font is legal; all the
> licenses of the fonts that you are merging should be compatible.
>
All fonts are licensed under GPL.

Yours Dirk