Bug#327480: Please separate the .pfb files of Type1 fonts and make them available to X11

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de>]

Hilmar Preusse wrote:

> this is just a summarization of #225004 and friends. 

Thanks for the summary, Hilmar. I tried to go through #225004 but
somehow got lost ...

Some comments:

[...]
> - add defoma support (?) (<87n07qzvy8.fsf@florent.maison>) (optional)
> 
> - Gnome2 integration (optional)

What does Gnome2 integration require? I would expect that Gnome2 uses
fontconfig, which would be provided by defoma.

[...]
> - provide a file fonts.scale as explained by the Policy Par 11.8.5. 
>   (optional) Florent: "I guess you want obtain any good result
>   without font.scale."<87n07qzvy8.fsf@florent.maison>

The way I understand the policy one *has* to put a 'fonts.scale' file
named <pkg-name>.scale into /etc/X11/fonts/Type1/.


> Rather long list. I probably don't have the time to work on this.
> Meanwhile there seem to exist a script[1] to automate parts of the
> work, but I did not really have a look at that.
[...]
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-tetex-maint/2005/08/msg00614.html
> ff.

The primary intent of this script is different. It builds a 'almost
leagal' debian package from an existing TEXMF tree with fonts and tries
to do some integration of the fonts with the rest of the system.
However, automatic X11/defoma integration brings you only so far. In
many cases manual changes are advisable.

cheerio
ralf