2015-06-15 8:25 GMT+05:00 Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at>:

> Ahh, I guess I know the problem:
> * texlive-fonts-recommended ships the original URW fonts
> * ghostscript-fonts ships the fonts where cyrillic characters
>   are added
>
> That has for long been a specific change of Debian, and was not endorsed
> by URW. Thanks to recent activity from various sides, thje official
> URW distribution now also contains cyrillic characters (AFAIR), but
> TeX Live is not updated (not when it was frozen, and nor is it now).
>

What a historical mess!


> But unfortunately it seems that fontconfig returns the TeX Live font
> instead of the ghostscript font, thus breaking Cyrillic.
>

Hmmm, but for wheezy and squeeze it was OK. And probably for earlier
releases. And I cannot see any significant change between Makefiles of
trunk and of wheezy. So, it is because some change in TeX Live.

Regards,
Lev

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