[tex-live] Palatino / figbas

[Khaled Hosny]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 01:30:33PM -0500, Bob Tennent wrote:
>  >|> I'm the developer of the figbas fonts. The information in the .pfb file
>  >|> says that the Fontname is FiguredBassPalatino and the Family Name is
>  >|> Palatino. It seems that SUSE is using this font for rendering digits.
>  >|> I'm not familiar with how SUSE selects fonts but I think this is their
>  >|> issue. As far as I know, the font information is correct; if not I'll
>  >|> change it but I'll need authoritative guidance.
>  >|
>  >|The family name should be the same as fontname, else certain
>  >|applications and libraries will recognise it as a "Palatino"
> 
> I don't think that's the case.  For example,
> 
> Fontname: URWPalladioL-Roma
> Family Name: URW Palladio L
> Name for Humans: URW Palladio L Roman

Fontname cannot have spaces and has restricted length AFAIK, since the
name does not matter much for TeX you just need to make sure your font
names are unique enough, hence my earlier suggestion. You can as well
name it "Figured Bass Palatino", that is up to you, just make sure not
to use another font's name.

Regards,
 Khaled

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