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

[Dr. Werner Fink]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 12:31:28AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Simple answer:
> 
> On Mo, 10 Jan 2011, andrew cooke wrote:
> > I originally reported this as a bug to OpenSuse, who have replied saying that I 
> > need to take it "upstream", which I think means you guys.
> 
> That is a bug in openSuSE, not TeX Live ....

That depends on ... on the wish of some users to have also Type1 fonts
around fontconfig.  In the meanwhile I've split off the Type1 into
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/09-texlive-type1.conf and have *not* relinked
it to /etc/fonts/conf.d/ to avoid this and other troubles.  Nevertheless
the rest that is opentype and truetype are enabled due XeLaTeX.
This was an other bug report.

> And yes, it is a bug in SuSE, the font should probably not be made
> available to fontconfig.
> 
> > There's a lot of information here - https://www.quora.com/Typefaces/Why-is-
> > Palatino-displaying-2-with-a-vertical-line-that-makes-it-look-like-4 (please 
> > expand the "more" under the question link to see everything).  That includes 
> > images of the problem.
> 
> BTW, please provide links that are useable, and not broken across lines.
> 
> And as I saw ... the page you mentioned shows that fontconfig is
> using that font. That is not good. So it should not be procided to
> fontconfig.
> 
> > The OpenSuse bug report is here - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?
> > id=662159
> 
> And here I see that Werner Fink said you should contact us.
> Well, we are not upstream, the author of the font itself has to fix
> the (maybe wrong - I don't know) fontname.
> 
> The whole point is that not blindly all fonts in texlive should
> be made available to fontconfig, this is my opinion, and this is
> what I (putting Debian hat on) do when packaging TeX Live for Debian.
> 
> > If this still is not the correct place to report this, please can you tell me 
> > who to talk to?  I realise that it looks a little like one of those annoying 
> 
> The author of the original font.
> 
> But he will probably tell you: This is a font for TeX, NOT for the X
> Window System of fontconfig, why on earth are you using it there?
> 
> Enough for today.

Werner

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