[lltx] fontspec and xunicode

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Aug 5 10:03:17 CEST 2010


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 :)

Regards,
 Khaled

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


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