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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Bob Tennent wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap=""> >|Incidentally, I now see that BrushScriptX-Italic existed
>|as a PFB file in (some) earlier releases of TeX Live
>|(e.g., TeX Live 2008, 9, 10, 11, 12). What happened to
>|the PFB file thereafter, and is this in part a cause of
>|the problem ?
I don't know why the pfb was replaced by a pfa but it isn't
the cause of any problem. But I have no idea what you think
is a problem.</pre>
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The problem, Bob, is that one should not need a <i>package</i> in
order to use a <i>font</i>. A font is a little thing, rather like
(say) colour. If I want to typeset a stretch of text in blue, I
don't expect to have to load a package "blue.sty" — I expect there
to be a package called (say) "colour.sty" that will allow me to use
<i>any</i> colour that I can specify in a meaningful way. And that
is how I would expect fonts to be handled, by (say) a package called
"type-1-fonts.sty" that would allow me to use <i>any </i>type-1
font that appears in the LaTeX font catalogue.<br>
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But the real problem, I fear, is that you don't see there to be any
problem.<br>
-- <br>
<i>** Phil.</i><br>
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