[tex-live] Bug report on duplicate fonts TTF vs. OTF

[Zdenek Wagner]

It is not clever to remove them. For instance, if you wish to use the
fonts in other applications, you need TTF because OTF are not
recognized. For instance XML editors written in Java require TTF, they
do not work with OTF. It is really unfortunate that fontconfig does
not honour preferences set in the config files but this is a bug in
fontconfig, not in TeX.

2014-11-10 11:24 GMT+01:00 Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net>:
> Hi all,
>
> The following files in TeX Live are shipped in both OTF and TTF. I would
> like to request that the TTF files of these fonts are no more shipped
> for the following reasons.
>
> Without making special rules or removing files manually (and upsetting
> the package manager) software such as font config could select
> unintentionally the wrong font file. For example it could use the TTF
> file while you would like to use the OTF file.
>
> OTF files have much more font capabilities and features compared to TTF
> files. For that reason there is no use of also shipping these TTF files.
>
> http://ctan.org/pkg/asana-math
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/Asana-Math/Asana-Math.ttf
> vs.
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/Asana-Math/Asana-Math.otf
>
> http://ctan.org/pkg/almfixed
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/almfixed/almfixed.ttf
> vs.
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/almfixed/almfixed.otf
>
> http://ctan.org/pkg/lobster2
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/impallari/lobster2/LobsterTwo-Bold.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/impallari/lobster2/LobsterTwo-BoldItalic.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/impallari/lobster2/LobsterTwo-Italic.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/impallari/lobster2/LobsterTwo-Regular.ttf
> vs.
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/impallari/lobster2/LobsterTwo-Bold.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/impallari/lobster2/LobsterTwo-BoldItalic.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/impallari/lobster2/LobsterTwo-Italic.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/impallari/lobster2/LobsterTwo-Regular.otf
>
> http://ctan.org/pkg/gnu-freefont
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeMono.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerifBold.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSans.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeMonoBold.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerifItalic.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSansOblique.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSansBold.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeMonoOblique.ttf
> texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerif.ttf
> vs.
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeMono.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerifBold.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSansBoldOblique.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerifBoldItalic.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSans.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeMonoBold.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeMonoBoldOblique.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerifItalic.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSansOblique.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSansBold.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeMonoOblique.otf
> texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/gnu-freefont/FreeSerif.otf
>
> Simultaneously the authors of the packages could be informed on this and
> might also stop shipping TTF files for these packages.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pander



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