[XeTeX] [lltx] fontspec and xunicode

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Aug 5 10:37:36 CEST 2010


On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 11:03:17AM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 05:14:43PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
> > On 05/08/2010, at 5:05 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, I can not actually upload fontspec to CTAN since I am unable to
> > > build the documentation :) (even if I got all the non-free fonts, I
> > > still can not generate the AAT examples). I think, adding the PDFs of
> > > the examples to the repository would help anyone to build the
> > > documentation without the fonts.
> > 
> > Hmm, good point. I don't really want to add the PDFs to the repository since they're effectively derived files, but if necessary you can get the PDFs from CTAN.
> 
> Since they are derived files that cannot be easily generated, I see no
> harm. This reminds me of WINE's team insistent fo years to not include
> the generated TTF files in their tarballs since the source SFDs are
> there, which meant anyone building a binary package needs FontForge
> which was a little inconvenient though it is freely available, now
> compare this with the non-freely generated examples :)

And even with the "/doc" from ctan, I still can't build the package
because `make doc` insists on generating the test files which fails
here.

Regards,
 Khaled

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


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