[tex-live] FontForge SFD files

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Mon Jul 19 00:47:51 CEST 2010


On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 12:00:51AM +0000, Karl Berry wrote:
> I was aware that xits (and others) were fontforge files.  What I'd
> forgotten was that sfd was for subfonts :).
> 
> I moved them all.
> 
>     They are useless to TeXLive
> 
> They are not useless.

Though sources are generally useful, in this case the SFD files provide
almost no data that is not present in the generated OTF files, so apart
from being plain text dump of the fonts (in a format only FontForge can
make use of AFAIK), they provide no extra value.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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