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Bug#289997: marked as done (lout-common: Support for the inclusion of new fonts)

Your message dated Mon, 19 Oct 2020 21:33:55 +0000
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has caused the Debian Bug report #289997,
regarding lout-common: Support for the inclusion of new fonts
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Package: lout-common
Version: 3.30-1
Severity: wishlist


Hi,

The `lout' package lacks support for easily making it benefit from other
fonts that get installed on the system.  Ideally, `lout' (or rather
`lout-common') should provide a `lout.defoma' script so that Defoma can
know about it.  Such a script should be able to add/remove @FontDef
entries from Lout's `fontdefs.ld' database (in a way similar to how
several packages modify `inetd.conf') and run `lout -x'.  Otherwise, it
could simply create a new font database file (e.g. `cm-fonts.ld' for
Computer Modern, etc.) for each new font package, although this is much
less elegant.  Obviously, the script should also create/remove a symlink
to the AFM file of each new font in /usr/share/lout/font.  For details,
see http://snark.niif.spb.su/~uwe/lout/essays/1365.fonts.txt (the
`fontdef' thing is outdated).

Unfortunately, while there are lots of `ttf-*' packages and `xfonts-*'
packages, there aren't many Type1 font packages.  The `lmodern' package
(which would be very useful), for instance, is currently too dependent
on TeX so it may need to either be fixed (e.g. split into two packages)
or we could create a `lout-font-lmodern' package.

Thanks,
Ludovic.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.2.20-pmac
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages lout-common depends on:
ii  lout                          3.30-1     Typesetting system, an alternative

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Version: 3.39-3+rm

Dear submitter,

as the package lout has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports.  We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.

For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/972182

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
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