[tex-live] TeX Live and GNU FreeFont

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi Norbert,

thank you for clarification. When the information appeared on Kevin's blog
and in the XeTeX list, it was not clear that the svn head is distributed in
the "opt-in" TL repository. I hpe this solution is OK.

Do you just package automatically the head or do you run some tests before
doing it? I have a lot of test files for Devanagari. The tests are not
machine radable, it is necessary to look at the PDF files. I can do it
before you package a new svn release.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2015-04-15 15:43 GMT+02:00 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:

> Hi Zdenek,
>
> what you describe is already happening!
>
> * TeX Live contains the latest released version
>
> * my tlptexlive contains the svn head
>
> The svn head was *never* part of TeX Live
>
> So I don't see any problem here.
>
> Unfortunately Steve was not very happy about this development, but maybe
> this has changed?
>
> All the best
>
> Norbert
>
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> On Apr 15, 2015, at 9:39 PM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to open a question of GNU FreeFont that should be clarified before
> TL 2015 gets frozen for DVD. As we know, the latest official release is
> quite old and its Devanagari block does not work with HarfBuzz. On the
> other hand, the Devanagari block in the subversion repository is OK (I will
> test it soon with TL 2015 pretest in order to be sure). This means that one
> of the most beautiful Devanagari fonts is not officially available to
> normal users. Some time ago TL 2014 started to distribute GNU FreeFont from
> the head of the svn repository. This seems to be good news for users but
> bad news for font developers. I see two possibilities:
>
> 1. If the font is ready for an official release, it would be good to
> release it before TL is frozen for DVD production
>
> 2. If there are still too things to be resolved before release, we should
> take advantage of the possibility of several TL repositories. The standard
> repository should contain the officially released FreeFont while an
> additional repository will contain FreeFont from the head of the svn repo.
> The advantage is that those who prefer a stable font and do not need
> Devanagari will not configure this additional TL repo. Those who need
> Devanagari and are prepared to take the risk that the font does not work
> will configure this additional repository.
>
> Is this reasonable?
>
> Zdeněk Wagner
> http://hroch486.icpf.cas.cz/wagner/
> http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz
>
>
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