[tex-live] testing infrastructure updates

[George N. White III]

On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk> wrote:

> Norbert Preining wrote:
>>
>> Hi Uwe,
>>
>> On Sa, 28 Nov 2009, Uwe Siart wrote:
>>>
>>> I found that getnonfreefonts is removed and no longer available after
>>> the latest update. Does this mean that we have to take leave of this
>>> nice, nice feature?
>>
>> Yes. We have removed all the support files and try to remove everything
>> dealing with non-free fonts.
>>
>> Pleae get it at
>>        http://tug.org/~kotucha/getnonfreefonts/
>> if you need it and put it into your path, that should be enough.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Norbert
>>
>> -
>
> And how are students now meant to be getting these fonts now?
>
> Installing be hand is a bit too complicated for normal users.

Are you concerned with the problem of installing getnonfreefonts
or are you thinking of manual installation of the fonts without using
getnonfreefonts?

One approach is to create a local texmf tree devoted to non-free
fonts, say texmf-nffonts, and tell students how to add the tree
to their texlive installation (e.g., symlink to the directory on a
server and update the texmf.cnf).

There have been improvements in the selection of free fonts.  Certainly
there are existing documents that use fonts obtainable with
getnonfreefonts, but for new work it may be better to use free
fonts.  If there are problems with the free fonts the chances of
getting the fixes made are much better than with the non-free fonts.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia