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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Ulrike Fischer wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:11ll39ojdo39x$.dlg@nililand.de">The
general advice to use any font in latex is to try to find a
support package and to use it.<br>
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And people wonder why some prefer Microsoft Word to TeX. <br>
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Really, I am having great trouble not using profanities here —
someone wants to use a different font to the default, and they have
to search for a <i>support package</i> in order to use it ?! What
sort of insanity is this ? If, as I suspect, the problem lies
primarily with those fonts that exist only as AFM/PFA (or B) pairs,
then why don't we just mark all such fonts as "deprecated" and
recommend only those fonts that exist as TTF/OTF ? These can then
be handled natively by Xe[La]TeX, and will need no "support package"
at all.<br>
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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 ?<br>
-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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