[tex-live] .otf vs. .ttf fonts

Staszek Wawrykiewicz staw at gust.org.pl
Thu Jun 17 03:08:18 CEST 2010


On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:

> I've found that in tl2010 repository we have several .ttf and .otf fonts
> with the same basic names:
> arkandis/libris/ (only those from arkandis)
> public/Asana-Math/
> public/gnu-freefont/
>
> The question is: which fonts are used for XeTeX and cached by fc-cache?

As I see, fc-cache process both: otf, then ttf (according to 
precedence in fonts.conf, btw.:)

> Ps. more investigations later, Janusz Nowacki told me that some
> gentium fonts are unusable, but have to check it myself...

Hmm, GenI102 and GenR102 are unusable, nor even cached. Any idea why we
have such fonts?

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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
staw at gust.org.pl


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