--- On Mon, 11/14/11, Herbert Duerr <hdu_...@alice.de> wrote: ... > > > > I think he fixed the metric files to better work with > the Arial Narrow > > font. > > I extended the Liberation Sans font family with Narrow font > faces and contributed these changes upstream. > > > But still, he will be sad, that they have to go. > > Not only me, but everyone who is using documents with it or > its metrically compatible counterpart. These documents or > their text boxes tend to overflow and this often looks > nasty. >
I might've got it wrong, but I understand "liberation" fonts are actually replacements for fonts that are already installed on Windows. MS-Windows users don't need them and linux/BSD users have them preinstalled. > Maybe I should look into basing some new Narrow font faces > on a font family that has a license acceptable for bundling > them as binaries in an Apache release (e.g. OFL?) > Unfortunately really good fonts are all commercial. I tend to use the gsfonts package. These are rather useful for math: http://www.bluesky.com/help/fonts/techams.html but I recall the ttf versions of them are also commercial. cheers, Pedro.
