[lltx] XeTeX vs LuaTeX font names

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard mpg at elzevir.fr
Mon Jul 12 19:37:27 CEST 2010


Le 12/07/2010 19:15, Will Robertson a écrit :
> On 13/07/2010, at 2:29 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> 
>> The Latin Modern names are really a big mess, for example fontconfig
>> fails to handle it properly. It would have made my life easier if they
>> did it in a saner way.
>>
>> AFAIC, I'm not doing any further work to support Latin Modern names,
>> anyone is free to submit patches, though.
> 
> That's fine; I half expected this which is why I didn't open it as a bug.
> People who need cross platform consistency can load the fonts by filename or
> just use a conditional.
> 
Don't you think it should be reported as a (minor) bug against the fonts
themselves? I see no rational reason for doing this, and it only makes things
more complicated for everyone (IMO).

Manuel.


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