[Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: Source for latex-xft-fonts?

Per Olofsson pelle at debian.org
Tue Jan 16 21:18:53 CET 2007


John Levon:
> I've entirely forgotten how I did it, but it definitely involved some
> manual fixing of the fonts. I used some popular open-source font editor,
> which I've also forgotten, and I had to fix some stuff up if I remember
> rightly.

Perhaps fontforge?

> I have no idea what "sources" they're looking for. It's like complaining
> a .jpg doesn't have sources when it's a scanned in photo.

Not exactly, because these fonts have been generated from the original
font files. The thinking is that they have been "compiled" from the
originals. But I'm not sure that's really the case here.

If you had to fix up stuff, and have forgotten exactly how you
generated the fonts, then I think the ttf files actually qualify as
"source" as far as Debian is concerned. Debian's definition of source
code is "preferred form of modification", which these files seem to
be.

> One solution might be to add the missing families to Mozilla's TTF
> fonts, and get them working with LyX?

I'm not familiar with these fonts so I can't say.

-- 
Pelle



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