[tex-live] Palatino / figbas - ligatures for baroque music corrupting web pages(?!)

Dr. Werner Fink werner at suse.de
Mon Jan 10 17:19:24 CET 2011


On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 05:10:06PM +0100, Zdenek Wagner wrote:
> 2011/1/10 andrew cooke <andrew at acooke.org>:
> >
> > All those details were available in the links I gave.
> >
> > If you or the OpenSuse people want your systems to work well for other people,
> > you might be interested in looking into this.  If not, well, my computer works.
> >
> > Seriously.  I maintain software too.  I care about the code I maintain.  If
> > someone tells me something is wrong I don't bitch about how they told me.  I
> > thank them for the info and fix my god-damn code.
> >
> TeX Live developers are authors of infrastructure programs as tlmgr
> and if a bug is report, they qhuickly fix it. Fonts and macro packages
> are simply taken from CTAN and packaged so that they work with tlmgr
> and with the TeX suite. The managers cannot even test that everything
> works in all corners of the TeX world. Using TeX fonts in X server in
> some Linux distro is far beyond the scope of TeX Live. If a font is
> corrupted, only its author can fix it. Authors and maintainers of most
> fonts and packages are not connected with TeX Live development, they
> do not read messages sent to this list. You have to find the README
> file of the font and find the responsible person.

Is there a know email address of Young Ryu?

   Werner

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