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Location of Type 1 fonts
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| Jaldhar H. Vyas 2004-10-25, 5:52 pm |
| I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX
packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1?
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| Ron Johnson 2004-10-28, 2:48 am |
| On Mon, 2004-10-25 at 16:16 -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX
> packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1?
Isn't /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 just a bunch of symlinks
into
/usr/share/fonts/type1/gsfonts
/usr/share/fonts/type1/t1-xfree86-nonfree
And doesn't Tex manage it's own fonts?
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| Thaddeus H. Black 2004-10-28, 7:49 am |
| Jaldhar H. Vyas asks,
> I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some
> TeX packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1?
I do not pretend to have the full answer to the question, but I see no
full answer yet on the list, and this may interest you. The listed
Debian packages appear to deal in Type 1 fonts yet seem to have nothing
particularly to do with X. Source: debram, ramification [1718 Fonts],
standing separately from [1823 X Fonts] for precisely the kind of issue
your question raises. Further info
at [http://debtags.alioth.debian.org].
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1718 FONTS (39)
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CM Connelly opt mminstance
Multiple-master font utilities for creating AFM or PFB files
CM Connelly opt t1utils
A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulation programs
AR Czechowski opt libt1-5
Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime
AR Czechowski opt libt1-dev
Type 1 font rasterizer library - development
AR Czechowski opt libt1-doc
Type 1 font rasterizer library - developers documentation
AR Czechowski opt t1lib-bin
Type 1 font rasterizer library - user binaries
AR Czechowski opt t1lib-dev
Type 1 font rasterizer library - development
AR Czechowski opt t1lib1
Type 1 font rasterizer library - runtime
A. Fok opt ttf2pt1
A TrueType to PostScript Type 1 Font Converter
A. Lees opt defoma
Debian Font Manager -- automatic font configuration framework
A. Lees opt defoma-doc
Debian Font Manager documentation
A. Lees opt psfontmgr
PostScript font manager -- part of Defoma, Debian Font Manager
J. Mouette opt fontconfig
generic font configuration library
J. Mouette opt libfontconfig1
generic font configuration library (shared library)
J. Mouette ext libfontconfig1-dbg
generic font configuration library (debugging symbols)
J. Mouette opt libfontconfig1-dev
generic font configuration library (development headers)
C. Silpa-Anan opt fontforge
Font Editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts
C. Silpa-Anan opt fontforge-doc
Font Editor for PS, TrueType and OpenType fonts
C. Silpa-Anan opt pfaedit
A migration package for FontForge
C. Silpa-Anan opt type1inst
Install Adobe Type 1 fonts into X11 and Ghostscript
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| Frank Küster 2004-10-28, 5:52 pm |
| "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@debian.org> schrieb:
> I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX
> packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1?
If the fonts are meant to be used by TeX applications, they must reside
within the TEXMFMAIN tree, that is /usr/share/texmf/. This only makes
sense, however, if the TeX Font Metric files (*.tfm) are also
available. Though not strictly necessary to function AFAIK, the font
filenames in TEXMFMAIN should follow the Berry scheme.
The lmodern package is an example for making fonts available both to TeX
applications and to defoma/X11.
Regards, Frank
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Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z=FCrich
Debian Developer
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| Josselin Mouette 2004-10-28, 5:52 pm |
| Le lundi 25 octobre 2004 Ã_ 16:16 -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas a écrit :
> I'm confused as to where to place Type 1 fonts. Should they go into
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 or /usr/share/fonts/type1? Why do some TeX
> packages have their fonts under /usr/share/texmf/fonts/type1?
Generally, fonts should be placed under /usr/share/fonts. If not, it's
better if they are registered with defoma. This way they'll be available
to most applications through fontconfig.
TeX does its own stuff with fonts, and it's not enough to drop a font in
the TeX directory to make it available to TeX documents. It would be
possible, but quite complicated, using defoma.
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