[tex-live] Include type1 package for Garamond fonts
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue Feb 23 23:04:31 CET 2010
On 23 February 2010 Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
> > The changes to suggest (/UniqueID etc.) are trivial with FontForge.
>
> Reportedly there also are issues with the license, see the
> original thread.
>
> > Surely that's not the problem?
>
> The problem is that the author, by his own admission, wrote those
> files for a friend and never had the intention of distributing it
> anywhere.
Well, making them available is some kind of distribution, isn't it?
> Plus, he's obviously uncomfortable with the idea of devising a
> package for TeX Live. It feels to me like the people wanting to
> have it included in TeX Live should ask for his permission and take
> things over.
Sorry, I didn't cite the whole response. He also said:
> So I would say that anybody who steps up to do the improvements
> that you suggest has my blessing, and should get due credit for
> it. I will do anything I can do to make this happen, should for
> instance I have forgotten to ship a file that I used to build these
> fonts.
But there are still a few other problems:
* If someone is willing to take over maintenance, I assume that he
needs the fontinst sources. Gaël improved kerning pairs. This
affects the metric files, not the fonts themselves. It's better to
have the sources instead of reverse-engineer things.
* The glyph outlines should be revised because there are some
glitches which might be visible.
I think that anybody who wants to take over maintenance has to contact
Gaël anyway. And he has to be familiar with a font editor (fontforge,
for instance) and with fontinst.
I didn't reverse-engineer the tfm files. Gaël replaced the original
glyph "Q" by something where the stroke at the bottom is much longer.
It looks very nice if a "Q" is followed by a "u", but it looks very
strange in abbreviations like "FAQ". I assume that it's possible to
convince fontinst to treat "Qu" as a ligature.
Furthermore, I think that if someone is very familiar with fontinst,
much more can be done. The new OsF are still mono-spaced. This looks
ugly in continuous text but is required for tables. I think that it's
quite useful to have some virtual fonts with different metrics and
some TeX macros which allow to switch between them. But as I said
before, thorough knowledge of fontinst is required.
If someone is brave enough to proceed, I don't want to stop him. But
I'm sure that all this is non-trivial.
Regards,
Reinhard
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