Package: fonts-urw-base35 Version: 20200910-8 Severity: normal I just noticed something weird in my (Firefox) browser: on a page with Palatino fonts, lines of text containing italic text are taller than lines without.
In this case, “Palatino” means the URW “P052” font. The difference in height seems to arise because the browser picks P052’s OTF version for Roman (upright) text, and the Adobe Type 1 (.pfb) version for Italic text. I was able to fix the problem by adding a user fontconfig configuration file that rejects the Type 1 fonts (I copied this, funnily enough, from TeX Gyre Pagella’s fontconfig files). There are two problems here: 1. The fonts have different heights in different formats, it seems. I’m not suggesting you try to fix this, as presumably changing the metrics is a no-no. 2. fontconfig seems to pick a font format for a given name non-deterministically. (And that’s not this package’s fault!) However, this package can fix the problem, by adding a similar fontconfig file to that used by TeX Gyre Pagella. (There’s no need for fontconfig to supply Type 1 fonts on a modern system, surely?) The configuration file that I would copy is /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-fonts-texgyre.conf in package fonts-texgyre -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers noble-updates APT policy: (500, 'noble-updates'), (500, 'noble-security'), (500, 'noble'), (100, 'noble-backports') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.14.0-37-generic (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_GB:en Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages fonts-urw-base35 depends on: ii xfonts-utils 1:7.7+6build3 fonts-urw-base35 recommends no packages. Versions of packages fonts-urw-base35 suggests: ii fonts-freefont-otf 20211204+svn4273-2 ii fonts-freefont-ttf 20211204+svn4273-2 ii fonts-texgyre 20180621-6 -- no debconf information
