Bug#143147: dvips uses type 3 fonts by default
From: Jason White <jasonjgw@pacific.net.au>
Subject: Bug#143147: dvips uses type 3 fonts by default
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 10:18:58 +1100
> Finally I ran dpkg --purge again, as above, but this time manually
> deleted the /etc/texmf and /usr/share/texmf directories which still
> existed, and were non-empty, after the purge. A clean re-installation
> this time worked, with bluesky type 1 fonts as the default when
> computer modern fonts were used.
Hmm, is this really so? I doubt that a clean installation
provides with bluesky type 1 fonts as the default.
Are you talking about dvips or something others ?
> I agree that hyphenation of French, German and other languages is
> crucially important (in fact I personally need it for French). I am
> not specifying which type 1 fonts should be used, only that type 1
> fonts are preferable in many cases, and should at least be an option
> in the configuration script. Thus I agree with the proposed strategy
> of bringing the necessary fonts into tetex or as separate Debian
> packages, and making type 1 fonts an installation-time option.
I think so too but please note that modifying conffile
is not allowed by the policy and even if we used debconf
it would be very delicate issue if we could manage a conffile.
Regards, 2004-1-7(Wed)
--
Debian Developer & Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
Department of Math., Univ. of Tokushima
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