[XeTeX] wrong r+vocalic r ligature in FreeSerif font

Steve White stevan.white at gmail.com
Wed Dec 17 20:40:58 CET 2014


Yikes.

Please please do not ever distribute the SVN version of FreeFont.

It is NOT the official release.  It is BROKEN.  It is for DEVELOPMENT
NOT DISTRIBUTION.

Please, do not force us to hide the SVN.


On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks to Norbert Preining, there's now a TeXlive repo for the SVN release
> of the GNU FreeFonts. See
>
> http://cikitsa.blogspot.co.at/2014/12/gnu-freefont-fonts-and-xelatex.html
>
>
> So that it gets into the XeTeX at tug.org archive, what Norbert said is:
>>
>> Please do:
>>
>> tlmgr repository add http://www.tug.org/~preining/tlptexlive/ tlptexlive
>> tlmgr pinning add tlptexlive gnu-freefont
>> tlmgr install --reinstall gnu-freefont
>>
>> You should see something like:
>>
>> [~] tlmgr install --reinstall gnu-freefont
>> ...
>> [1/1, ??:??/??:??] reinstall: gnu-freefont @tlptexlive [12311k]
>> ...
>>
>> Note the
>>         @tlptexlive
>>
>> After that you can do
>>
>>         tlmgr info gnu-freefont
>>
>> and should see:
>>
>> package:     gnu-freefont
>> category:    Package
>> installed:   Yes
>> revision:    3007
>> sizes:       src: 27157k, doc: 961k, run: 19769k
>> relocatable: No
>> collection:  collection-fontsextra
>>
>>
>> Note the
>>         revision: 3007
>> which correspondends to the freefont subversion revision!!!
>>
>> >From now on, after the pinning action, updates for gnu-freefont will
>> *ALWAYS* be pulled from tlptexlive (see man page of tlmgr).
>
>
>
>
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