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. So, Jindrich, the question is whether ripping out the TeX fonts formats that are usable by the system at large (via freetype etc.), and replacing them with symlinks in the TDS is going to work? A potential problem that I see is that if texlive gets installed after some fonts it needs to figure out and link to them... On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 22:42 +0300, Vasile Gaburici wrote: >> >> XeTeX can do that. TeX probably NEVER will because that violates TDS. >> If you don't what that means, then don't take on the subject of TeX >> fonts. > > Symlinks? > > -- > behdad > http://behdad.org/ > > "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little > Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." > -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 > > _______________________________________________ Fedora-fonts-list mailing list Fedora-fonts-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-fonts-list
