<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>There are about 50 fonts in CTAN which are in TDS and are not part of TeXLive. If is zip, tar, rpm ... it is not really different, the important part if that TDS organization is ready.<br><br></div>Now the format is all over the place: MF, Type 1, TrueType ... and a LOT of that work to classify them will have to be done. But my point is -- this should be done only ONCE and then all users of TeXLive could reap the benefits, instead of the situation that we have right now where this has to be re-done and re-done by each individual user ... and probably with a very low rate of success because of the cumbersome process.<br><br></div>15 years ago there was a reason to keep some fonts out of TeXLive - the space on the CD being probably the most important, but right now there seems to be no reason to keep them out.<br><br></div>There are two ways to do it:<br><br></div> A- Include them on TeXLive<br><br></div> B- Make their download and installation automatic via a script.<br><br></div>and my question was essentially -- which way is preferable? <br><br></div>There are NO reasons why font-installation should not be a completely automated process. It is like that already for some (the 10 fonts covered by getnonfreefonts, MathTimePro, MinionMath, ...) but the scripts are proliferating without any need for it. The script for the last two literally mimic getnonfreefonts line by line.<br><br></div>Paulo Ney de Souza<br><div><div><div><div><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 2:36 AM, Zdenek Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:zdenek.wagner@gmail.com" target="_blank">zdenek.wagner@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Saying that something is packaged does not give any useful information. How is it packaged, as zip, rpm, deb, ...? If it is a zip, what is the directory structure inside it? What is the format of the font, is it MF, Type 1, TrueType, OpenType? What is the encoding of the font? Which languages and scripts are supported? If a font is properly packaged, it means that all this information is present in a metafile understandable to an infrastructure that is able to put the files to correct directories and is able to inform the operating system and/or a particular TeX distribution that the font is available. CTAN usually contains archive files, not packages. In order to use them a user has to collect all this information and install the font. There is nothing like super simple font installation unless it is an OpenType font and you can just copy the *.otf to a system directory.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>Zdeněk Wagner<br><a href="http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml" target="_blank">http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml</a><br><a href="http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz" target="_blank">http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz</a></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-13 2:41 GMT+02:00 Paulo Ney de Souza <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pauloney@gmail.com" target="_blank">pauloney@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>We are talking about fonts that have already been packaged - this is about installation and not packaging for TeX.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Paulo Ney<br></font></span></div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:38 PM, Norbert Preining <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:preining@logic.at" target="_blank">preining@logic.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">> elsewhere) which are not available on TL. This is vexing because the<br>
> technology to make these installs a single command line like ...<br>
><br>
> font-install Antiqua<br>
<br>
$ font-install Antiqua<br>
bash: font-install: command not found<br>
<br>
I don't know what you are talking about that super simple font<br>
installation, but I can guarantee you - and I have packaged a lot of<br>
fonts - that font installation cross platform is not trivial.<br>
<br>
Norbert<br>
<br>
------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
PREINING, Norbert <a href="http://www.preining.info" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.preining.info</a><br>
JAIST, Japan TeX Live & Debian Developer<br>
GPG: 0x860CDC13 fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13<br>
------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
</blockquote></div><br></div>
</div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br></div>