agree On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:48 PM, <fab...@greffrath.com> wrote: > Hi Jonas, > >> Am 18.02.2011 11:33, schrieb Jonas Smedegaard: >> There is currently a discussion on gs-devel to merge the urwcyr >> 1.0.7pre44 fonts that Debian ships in their gsfonts package into the >> fonts that ghostscript ships: >> <http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2011-February/008891.html> > > There are some news: According to this thread > http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-devel/2011-March/008939.html > ghostscript upstream is going to revert the shipped fonts to the original > URW++ fonts in one of the next releases. Their argumentation is plausibel, > as they want to resemble the Adobe fonts as closely as possible and do not > gain any advantadge by adding additional glyphs (of dubious quality). > > I believe, Debian should ship these fonts as well in a separate package > and drop the urwcyr, i.e. gsfonts, package altogether. People who need the > URW++ fonts with additional glyphs should be adviced to use the TeX Gyre > fonts instead. > > - Fabian > > > > > >
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