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<p>On 2017-08-07 15:53, Mike "Pomax" Kamermans wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:aaac9a2f-5a6b-adec-afbb-58a641cf7feb@nihongoresources.com">On
8/6/2017 6:38 PM, Bobby de Vos wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">He also thinks fontconfig/freetype should
be enhanced so TrueType (and I would add OpenType) fonts are
prioritized before WOFF.
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The idea of "installing" a WOFF resource for serving by an OS font
manager is... bad? That's not what WOFF are for, they are
explicitly intended to NOT be system level fonts, and allow
certain data to be omitted because the deployment is known to not
be DTP and applications but web content through CSS instructions.
Using WOFF anyway for something like Xe(La)TeX makes no sense, and
if Debian allows WOFF to be installed at the OS level, that's
worth notifying the team over because that's not a thing your OS
should be doing. Maybe Jonathan as one of the WOFF spec authors
has a more nuanced opinion here, but this problem sounds like it
stems directly from an OS treating WOFF resources as something
they are absolutely not, with the obvious and predictable result
of breaking expectations about font resource handling.
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I tend to agree with you Mike (and thank you for your comments).
FWIW, one of the fontconfig maintainers feels differently [1].
Debian does not have consensus on where to place WOFF files, other
than under /usr/share/fonts where fontconfig finds them. So for my
needs, I will just not put WOFF files in Debian packages, and the
issue (for the people I support) is solved (with no work needed from
the XeTeX community). What the right thing to do, and by whom, is
getting beyond me.<br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101270#c10">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101270#c10</a><br>
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Bobby de Vos<br>
<em><a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:devos.bobby@gmail.com">devos.bobby@gmail.com</a></em><br>
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