please, before anything else try to have dafoma install and configure TeX fonts (with dvips support for type1 fonts.) that's the most difficult task and having to change how dafoma works to help that is easier now than when it will be officially adopted as the debian-way-of-installing-fonts.
ciao and good work! federico Scavenging the mail folder uncovered Yasuhiro TAKE's letter: > Sorry for multi-postings. > > Hello there, > > i've sent an announcement of GS-CJK a few weeks ago with test packages > prepared, which happened to come to light that it is broken :=( > i'm terribly sorry, testers. the fixed packages are put at: > deb http://arashi.debian.or.jp/~take/defoma ./ > > 1. please apt-get following packages from there. > defoma > defoma-gs > gsfonts > gs-cjk-resource-6.0 (for gs-aladdin 6.0x) > gs-cjk-resource-6.5 (for gs-aladdin 6.5x) > ja: cmap-adobe-japan1 & ttf-xtt-wadalab-gothic, ttf-xtt-watanabe-mincho > zh-CN: cmap-adobe-gb1 & ttf-arphic-gkai00mp > zh-TW: cmap-adobe-big5 & ttf-arphic-bkai00mp > > 2. just wait for configuration done. Defoma automatically configures fonts. > > Available Ja fonts will be: WadaLabGothic-Regular WatanabeMincho-Regular > Available CN fonts will be: GBZenKai-Medium > Available TW fonts will be: ZenKai-Medium > > In addition, Ryumin-Light (ja), GothicBBB-Medium (ja), Song-Medum-GB-H (CN), > MOESung-Regular-ETen-B5-H (TW) fonts are substituted for convenience. > You will see a ps file of ja/cn/tw version of www.debian.org generated > by 'print to a file' of netscape can be correctly drawn by ghostscript > if netscape-(ja|zh)-resource is installed. > > 3. If you want to use CJK fonts in Abiword, please apt-get defoma-abiword and > defoma-ps. xfonts-arphic-[gb]kai00mp is also needed. defoma-abiword contains > just a simple script using Defoma framework. You will see ZenKai, GBZenKai, > WadaLabGothic or WatanabeMincho appears in the font-selection menu. > > 4. If you want to use CJK fonts (and possibly all available PostScript fonts) > in tgif, please apt-get tgif (and maybe gsfonts-other) from there. > These two packages (and gsfonts package put there) are Defoma test version. > gsfonts-x11 is also needed. You will see almost all the fonts included > in gsfonts and gsfonts-other, and CJK fonts appear in the font-selection > menu. > > Defoma can especially benefit PostScript outputting applications like tgif > and abiword in the mentioned manner, and any application that needs > font configuration. > > After writing some documents, i'll itp defoma. > > /* > Torsten, do you agree to merge gs-cjk patches and adopt Defoma font > configuration framework? > */ > > -- > Yasuhiro Take aka hirot / <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Federico Di Gregorio MIXAD LIVE Chief of Research & Technology [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Developer & Italian Press Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Try the Joy of TeX [http://www.tug.org] -- brought to you by One Line Spam
