[Bug 456580] Multiple severe problems with texlive-texfm-fonts

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--- Comment #2 from Vasile Gaburici <gaburici cs umd edu>  2008-08-08 13:49:32 EDT ---
If nothing else gets done before F10's feature freeze, at the very least the
OpenType font directory from texlive-texfm-fonts
(/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/) should be added to fontconfig's
/etc/fonts/conf.d so other applications can use these fonts. (OOo isn't the
only other app in Fedora!). In particular the Latin Modern and Antykwa Toruńska
are well done rich families. The Gyre collection is well done too, but there
are some legal issues with their re-licensing business...

Perhaps the Type 1 fonts from texlive-texfm-fonts should be added to fontconfig
too. They tend to use TeX-specific 8-bit encodings, but freetype ignores those
and has its own Unicode to AGL name mapping, so they work reasonably well with
apps that use Type 1 fonts via freetype, e.g. OOo, Qt and Pango-based apps.
There's a problem however that the afm files are kept separately from pfb files
in the texmf tree. Furthermore, a large number of these fonts duplicate the
OpenType ones, so the OpenType containers should be prioritized somehow.

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