[tex-live] Bug report on duplicate fonts TTF vs. OTF

[Zdenek Wagner]

2014-11-10 17:01 GMT+01:00 Bob Tennent <rdt at cs.queensu.ca>:
>
>   software such as font config could select unintentionally
>   the wrong font file. For example it could use the TTF file
>   while you would like to use the OTF file.
>
> Can fontconfig not be configured to prefer OTF to TTF?
>
According to the documentation it can but several versions of
fontconfig in Fedora Linux do not obey the rules. And the behaviour is
not reproducible, the same setup works on one computer and does not
work on another. And after a week the behaviour is changed, so it is
difficult to submit a bug report.

>   OTF files have much more font capabilities and features
>   compared to TTF files. For that reason there is no use of
>   also shipping these TTF files.
>
> OTF format provides the *possibility* of more capabilities
> than TTF format. But I doubt that the particular OTF fonts
> involved here provide any additional capabilities over the
> TTF ones.
>
> I think many applications can't cope with OTF format and
> so the TTF files are useful. On the other hand, otftotfm
> support for TTF files is still "experimental" and so it is
> useful to distribute them as the "source" files as well
> when distributing LaTeX support.
>
> Bob T.
>



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