On 7/5/2023 7:05 PM, Carlos wrote:
And I don't want to stir up anything here either, but if the convention of
using non-official vs official fonts is the new de facto under lmtx,
I guess my opening question is invalid by all acounts
Well, the policy wrt font is quite simple:
(1) one can define a typescript for any font, and one is free to mess
around in these as much as possible
(2) a proper font will normally work ok but of course there can be
exceptions
(3) if a font behaves bad one can ask on the list but then you need to
give a mwe + output + indication where something is wrong
(4) if you're lucky someone else has that font and can try, but keep in
mind that one cannot assume someone to spend time (it is not everyones
hobby to solve issues)
(5) if nothing works out you need to provide an official (properly
licenced copy, which in the case of a commercial font means that you
have to buy an extra copy)
(6) you have to keep in mind that you ask someone to spend time on
something that is not worth spending time on (in the case of lucida: the
ones from tug work fine, and we send quite some time on the math too, so
we see no reason to spend more time on it ... there is only so much you
can expect for free)
(7) you cannot claim someones time and to what extend questions get
answered also depends on the tone of the email, the way questions are
formulates, etc etc
that said ... if you think that you can deduce conventions from the fact
that it is impossible or hard to answer a (somewhat vague) question,
some introspection is needed ... i get the impressions that you have no
clue what the de-facto conventions are under lmtx so i'd be careful in
drawing conclusions
also said: i do know the difference between input and font encoding and
i do know what tfm and afm files contain and i also do know how to
implement font/char handling (unless i have to guess what encoding,
fonts, chars, engine an dmacro package a user is using in which case I
don't - want to - know any of this) but when a user complain in certain
ways i tend to not listen
(let's see what chat gpt mnakes of that in the future)
anyway, i don't have these fonts, i have working lucida setup as do
other users, so i see no problem
and, as your fonts work fine in lualatex, you have a way out of this
persistent font issue,
Hans
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