Le Jeu 5 novembre 2009 09:26, Jindrich Novy a écrit : Hi Jindrich, > It is good to hear from you because I have a proposal for the > modification of macros.fonts in the "fontpackages". The reason is that > I had to manually hack it in order to let the TeX Live auto-generation > pass. > > The problem is that TeX Live provides a package "Asana-Math" which > provides couple of fonts. Note that there are upper case letters in > the name. Using lowercase is part of the fonts packaging guidelines. If we wanted to use font names as-is we'd have to authorize utf-8 package names (with codepoints outside the basic latin block), since font names are not necessarily basic latin (and in fact we *already* have several fonts in the distro with unicode names). Since FESCO decided unicode package names were a no-go, we frob package names completely fonts side and also lowercase them (as Debian, Suse, etc do; mixed case packages do not work on windows servers and FAT flash keys and are a nuisance for users). Lastly many upstreams do not use consistent casing for their font names (depending on the naming layer you look at) and for that reason fontconfig has to lowercase font names by default before processing (though it has to accept unicode names, and lowercases them according to unicode rules). Besides Asana is already packaged Fedora-side using the most recent upstream version IIRC. > Patch to fix macros.fonts is attached. I really do not wish to allow a case that goes against current font packaging guidelines all our font packages already respect (since, as you noted, it does not work if they don't). -- Nicolas Mailhot -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
