Hi everyone, I was browsing through the third party modules, and noticed that there are a few packages that provide typescripts for fonts. I think that it will be worthwhile to clean up and merge these modules, so as to reduce the amount of clutter. I am listing all the font related modules below, and asking if these are still needed; or should some of these be moved to an obsolete/ branch or merged with other modules. - Chinese font support (by Wolfgang Schuster; provides fonts, perhaps merge with cwTeX font module, also by Wolfgang) - GFSDidot Opentype fonts (I cannot browse through that! Should this be moved to obsolete branch?) - Greek (by Thomas Schmitz; provides fonts as well as typescripts, so this module cannot be merged) - Storm font support (Again, I cannot browse through that. Should this be moved to obsolete branch?) - Lucida bright font support (by Vit Zyka: do we still need these support files, or can this be moved to obsolete?) - Support for cwTeX fonts (by Wolfgang Schuster provides fonts and typescripts. Can this be merged with Chinese font support?) - Typescript (by Wolfgang Schuster, provides typescripts for a variety of fonts. I think that all modules that only distribute font typescripts should be merged with this one.) - URW Garamond support (by Peter Münster; is this still needed? If so, this should be merged with the typescript module) - URW Gothic support (by Taco Hoekwater; is this still needed? If so, this should be merged with the typescript module). What do others feel about such pruning and merging of packages? Aditya
On Sun, 7 Apr 2013, Peter Münster wrote:
On Sun, Apr 07 2013, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
- URW Garamond support (by Peter Münster; is this still needed?
Hi Aditya,
I don't think so. It's very old and only for mkii.
I am not against supporting MkII :) If the typescripts are needed for MkII, they can still be part of the typescript module by Wolfgang. Aditya
On 4/7/2013 9:25 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
On Sun, 7 Apr 2013, Peter Münster wrote:
On Sun, Apr 07 2013, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
- URW Garamond support (by Peter Münster; is this still needed?
Hi Aditya,
I don't think so. It's very old and only for mkii.
I am not against supporting MkII :)
If the typescripts are needed for MkII, they can still be part of the typescript module by Wolfgang.
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On Sun, Apr 07 2013, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
If the typescripts are needed for MkII, they can still be part of the typescript module by Wolfgang.
Of course. But I don't have URW Garamond installed on my system, so I can't test if it still works with latest mkii. (Now I use GaramondPremrPro (OTF) with simplefonts.) -- Peter
Am 07.04.2013 um 17:45 schrieb Aditya Mahajan
Hi everyone,
I was browsing through the third party modules, and noticed that there are a few packages that provide typescripts for fonts. I think that it will be worthwhile to clean up and merge these modules, so as to reduce the amount of clutter.
I am listing all the font related modules below, and asking if these are still needed; or should some of these be moved to an obsolete/ branch or merged with other modules.
- Chinese font support (by Wolfgang Schuster; provides fonts, perhaps merge with cwTeX font module, also by Wolfgang)
- Support for cwTeX fonts (by Wolfgang Schuster provides fonts and typescripts. Can this be merged with Chinese font support?)
It would be interesting to know if these files are still needed because with MkIV it’s simple to use CJK fonts and one doesn’t need all these files (tfm etc.) anymore. Wolfgang
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