<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 6:36 AM Bob Tennent <<a href="mailto:rdtennent@gmail.com">rdtennent@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <br>
But the "errors" you have reported to texhax are mostly<br>
*your* errors, likely not due to inadequate or obsolete<br>
documentation.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am not buying that Bob. This is on a vanilla -- perfectly correct -- installation </div><div>of TeXLive 21. </div><div><br></div><div>The "fc-cache" instructions are buried in Section 3.4.4 of a41-page manual, </div><div>that if you decide to read/understand/execute it all it will take you a week of work.</div><div><br></div><div>The fact that the standard recommendation tells you to install ALL of TeX fonts on </div><div>your system is BS -- there are a ton of fonts with the same name and that has been </div><div>known for breaking other tools, like for example, Evince.</div><div><br></div><div>I do sincerely hope that some of the ideas ventilated by David pan out. Making </div><div>XeTeX find TeX fonts-by-name should not require installation of all of them on </div><div>your system.</div><div><br></div><div>If it works on MikTeX, it should work -- almost -- just as well on TeXLive. If there is a</div><div>problem with "freeware" we should just add it to "getnonfreefonts" which is our best</div><div>framework for font installation. Installation of the Emerald Fontwerks fonts should be</div><div>a one-command, not hours of reading inadequate documentation, installation and</div><div>uncertainties about what you had done to your TeXLive tree.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
I now think *all* font packages not supported by<br>
TeXLive or getnonfreefonts should be marked as "For<br>
experts only" in the Font Catalogue or even moved into<br>
a separate sub-catalogue. It's clear that TeXLive and<br>
getnonfreefonts have "spoiled" you and likely many others<br>
into mis-interpreting the Usage information in the<br>
Catalogue.<br>
<br>
Bob T.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I think so too, and hopefully Palle is reading some of this.</div><div><br></div><div>Paulo Ney</div></div></div>