From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11424 invoked by alias); 12 Feb 2015 04:06:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11412 invoked by uid 89); 12 Feb 2015 04:06:36 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: limerock01.mail.cornell.edu Received: from limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (HELO limerock01.mail.cornell.edu) (128.84.13.241) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 12 Feb 2015 04:06:25 +0000 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock01.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t1C46NFX025313 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:06:23 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t1C46Maj016885 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 23:06:23 -0500 Message-ID: <54DC26B0.2080907@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 04:06:00 -0000 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: packages rebuilt for libpng16, tiff-4 References: <54DBE1D2.3060504@cornell.edu> <1423701570.12472.120.camel@cygwin.com> In-Reply-To: <1423701570.12472.120.camel@cygwin.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2015-02/txt/msg00022.txt.bz2 On 2/11/2015 7:39 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: > On Wed, 2015-02-11 at 18:12 -0500, Ken Brown wrote: >> On 2/8/2015 9:56 PM, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: >>> * fontconfig-2.11.1-2 >> >> I see that you decided not to restore the TeX Live font directories to >> /etc/fonts/fonts.conf. If that's your actual decision, and not just an >> oversight, > > It was an oversight; thanks for the reminder. As for a decision: > > AFAICS these fonts aren't intended for general usage (e.g. within X), so > I've tried to understand how fontconfig should be used within TeX Live. > In Fedora, for instance, the texlive font directories are not in > fonts.conf: > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/fontconfig.git/tree/fontconfig.spec#n66 > > and the texlive package doesn't include any references to conf.d or > conf.avail: > > http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/texlive.git/tree/texlive.spec > > However, Arch Linux's documentation actually addresses this clearly: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TeX_Live#Fonts > > and suggests a solution similar to yours by providing the file in > conf.avail without automatically creating the symlink. > > The TeX Live manual further suggests that such a file may already > included in xetex: > > https://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-350003.4.4 > > But I don't see such a file on my system, nor is it mentioned in > Fedora's texlive.spec. Besides the location, though, the solution is > the same. > >> then I guess one of the TeX Live packages should add a >> suitable file to /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail, with a link to it in >> /etc/fonts/conf.d. Or I could just add the file directly to >> /etc/fonts/conf.d and skip the symlink, whichever you prefer. The >> contents would be >> >> >> >> >> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype >> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype >> /usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/type1 >> >> >> and I would call it 09-texlive.conf, as suggested in the TeX Live manual. >> >> Is this how you want me to handle it? > > Based on the above, and various mailing list discussions on the topic, I > think we should provide that file but NOT the symlink, and document this > in an appropriate place. That sounds reasonable. I think I'll provide the file in texlive-collection-basic, and I'll put the documentation in a suitable README file and in the release announcement. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/