[tex-live] Request for adding a package to TeXLive

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Thu Nov 3 16:01:43 CET 2011


On Do, 03 Nov 2011, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > http://www.ctan.org/pkg/business-research I would like to have the package
> > added to miktex. What is necessary to achieve this?
[...]
> If you want to have it in TeX Live, then you are here on the right place,
> and that is easy. It will appear soon in TeX Live by itself ;-)

I have to retract my statement.

The package has some serious problems, the biggest one is that
it requires Windows specific fonts, that have to be bought for
other OS.

Do you expect that an open source distribution dedicated to free
software includes a package that is based on commercial fonts?

I am not the one to decide that, but I am quite sure that Karl Berry
will not be happy to include this kind of package.

Btw, to you *really* force your authors to use *commercial* fonts?
Is this the idea of your journal to create business for Microsoft?

So bottomline, sorry, but I don't see inclusion of this package
in foreseeable future in TeX Live, but as said, I don't have the
last word.

Best wishes

Norbert
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