[tex-live] TL 2009 not installing URW Garamond ?

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Mon Oct 12 13:15:32 CEST 2009


Philip TAYLOR <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk> wrote:

> George N. White III wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  This is in the documentation, although a bit of effort is needed to follow
> > the trail.  "texdoc mathdesign" gets mathdesign-doc.pdf, which refers you to
> > a README for the font info, which then tells you that the font in question is
> > in the non-free section of CTAN.  
> 
> Well, is it ?  I find it at
> 
> 	http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/garamond/
> 
> no element of which is even vaguely similar to "non-free".
> Is one supposed to be able to guess that CTAN has classified
> it as "non-free", or is there a more reliable way to obtain
> this information ?

sigh.  strangely enough, we didn't search every file on ctan (cs. 12k of
them) when we did away with the nonfree tree.

mind you, i'm not sure the urw fonts ever were on nonfree (and i'm not
about to search the transaction history to find out).

robin


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