[Fontconfig] fontconfig: Branch 'master'

Akira TAGOH akira at tagoh.org
Tue Mar 18 00:00:22 PDT 2014


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.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 07:52:50PM -0700, Akira TAGOH wrote:
>>  conf.d/30-metric-aliases.conf |    6 ++++++
>>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>>
>> New commits:
>> commit c6aa4d4bfcbed14f39d070fe7ef90a4b74642ee7
>> Author: Akira TAGOH <akira at tagoh.org>
>> Date:   Tue Mar 18 11:51:37 2014 +0900
>>
>>     Bug 73291 - poppler does not show fl ligature
>>
>>     commented out substitutions for TeX Gyre Termes font
>>     until the broken font are fixed.
>>
>>     https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73291
>
> I don’t think TeX Gyre Termes ever claimed to be drop in replacement of
> times, so the font is not broken in that sense. It should not have been
> made a Times alias in the first place, and this is true for the rest of
> TeX Gyre fonts. (They are replacement in the sense that authors who need
> to use the original fonts can use them instead.)
>
> Regards,
> Khaled



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Akira TAGOH


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