On Sun, 2008-07-27 at 13:40 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote:
I had a look the TDS (
http://www.ctan.org/get/tds/tds.pdf). Nothing
written there prevents the use of symlinks. In fact their not even
mentioned because TDS is supposed work even on MSDOS. The question is
if it will actually work if we do that. I guess Jindrich Novy, the
texlive packaged owner knows better than any of us, so I'm cc-ing him.
It seems the tex-fonts-hebrew at least provides TEX context for some
system fonts
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/devel/tex-fonts-hebrew/tex-fonts-heb...
So proper packaging of Type1, TTF and OTF fonts would probably be
something like this
1. normal foo-fonts system package that can be used by any font system,
including TEX
2. tex-foo-fonts or foo-texfonts package that depends on foo-fonts and
adds additionnal TEX files (without duplicating the font files
themselves), with symlinks or references or whatever works in TEX
3. master TEX comps group or package that assembles all the foo-texfonts
packages.
Of course I know next to nothing about TEX so I'd be a lot happier if
people like Jonathan Underwood wrote the whole TEX font packaging rules
in my stead.
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Nicolas Mailhot