Bug#780681: tengwar (tengwarscript) doesn't work
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Hi,
> Seems, you're out of luck.
Tell me what finding a bug has to do with "luck".
Am Di den 17. Mär 2015 um 23:01 schrieb Hilmar Preuße:
> > ~> pdflatex tengtest.tex
> The error message above is helpful "perhaps Parmaite_alt is missing from the
> map file.", which is correct.
Well, that is not true. In my
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/tengwarscript/tengwarscript.map
from texlive-fonts-extra version 2014.20141024-1 there is the font in
the 4. line.
However, that map seems to get ignored. So, wrongly installed.
There is a way around that: "\pdfmapfile{=tengwarscript.map}", but as
the fonts are globally installed this map should be globally available
without using such a hack.
> (see the transcript file for additional information){/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/base/8r.enc}{/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/tengwarscript/tengwaralt.enc}
> !pdfTeX error: pdflatex (file Parmaite_alt.ttf): cannot open TrueType font
> file for reading
> ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
>
> The reason is: the file Parmaite_alt.ttf is not part of the Debian
> distribution; it has to be downloaded manually:
So the fonts are not correctly installed as I state in the bug report.
> http://at.mansbjorkman.net/parmaite.htm . About the reason not to include it
> I can only guess, but the copyright notice, is rather a cry for "do not
> include me!" [1].
Well, for me that license looks free and compatible with debian.
However, there is only two solutions for that.
1. Include the full fonts and register the map properly (Not only the
.tfm and .vf files that are already included)
2. Or do not deliver any part of that fonts and state in README.Debian
that and why that fonts are not available.
Currently we have a mix where .tfm and .vf files are installed but not
the .ttf file. Moreover, there is a map file but it seems at a wrong
location so updmap-sys does not find it.
> Sorry, no bug! One could think about removing the tengwar stub from TeX
> Live/Debian to avoid further confusion.
Sorry, a bug. (And please stay objective in bugs and don't be venomous.)
Regards
Klaus
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