In that sense, you're right. but the complaint isn't about the incompatibiilty of the metric. that could say it is a kind of feature request but Tex Gyre Termes doesn't support fi ligature. that should be a font issue and happens regardless of offering from fontconfig though. On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:22 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:06:29AM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: >> >> Le Mar 18 mars 2014 08:00, Akira TAGOH a écrit : >> > comment on the bug please. they are considering that issue is caused >> > by TeX Gyre Termes. I'd say it's not OURBUG. that said if it takes a >> > long time to get fixed, we need to take an action for a workaround. >> > that is it. >> >> I strongly advise setting up a deadline for the workaround removal, based >> on past history I'm quite sure that if fontconfig hides the bug no one >> will fix the font (and Tex Gyre is supposed to be the future so letting it >> rot is a very bad idea) >> >> Especially if the same font works fine in other apps. > > There is no font bug here to fix, TeX Gyre Termes is not metric or glyph > name-compatible with Times, so fontconfig should offer it as a weak > Times replacement if such thing is possiple (i.e. in a way that will not > tell poppler to use it if Times is missing), otherwise it should not be > offered as Times replacement at all. The same is true for the rest of > TeX Gyre fonts. > > Regards, > Khaled -- Akira TAGOH _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
