Re: Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-28 Thread trueroad
On 2016/10/27 15:50:14, lemzwerg wrote: > Other version of URW fonts do not seem to have OTF format. The link you are showing points to a directory where the fonts come in all three flavours. > C059-BdIta.otf ... in the ghostscript-9.20.tar.gz bundle the URW fonts don't have an extens

Re: Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-27 Thread lemzwerg
Other version of URW fonts do not seem to have OTF format. The link you are showing points to a directory where the fonts come in all three flavours. C059-BdIta.otf ... in the ghostscript-9.20.tar.gz bundle the URW fonts don't have an extension and are still in Type1 format. It's not clear

Re: Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-27 Thread trueroad
On 2016/10/26 15:16:27, lemzwerg wrote: > Our checks can detect old URW fonts. > Current URW fonts cannot be detect. Hmm, fontconfig collects information on a font's supported Unicode blocks while adding it to the database. If we check that the URW fonts are not Filippov's, but still supp

Re: Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-26 Thread lemzwerg
Our checks can detect old URW fonts. Current URW fonts cannot be detect. Hmm, fontconfig collects information on a font's supported Unicode blocks while adding it to the database. If we check that the URW fonts are not Filippov's, but still support Cyrillic, we have the new ones, right? Would

Re: Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-26 Thread trueroad
On 2016/10/26 11:46:15, lemzwerg wrote: > For non-GUB, it might be difficult. > There are many variations of URW fonts. > e.g. difference of the name, with or without Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, etc. Hmm. Didn't we have a test that checks whether the URW fonts contain Cyrillic glyphs? Maybe

Re: Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-26 Thread lemzwerg
For non-GUB, it might be difficult. There are many variations of URW fonts. e.g. difference of the name, with or without Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, etc. Hmm. Didn't we have a test that checks whether the URW fonts contain Cyrillic glyphs? Maybe we should only install the new URW fonts (locally

Re: Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-26 Thread trueroad
On 2016/10/25 20:39:09, lemzwerg wrote: > When you build current LilyPond, some TeX Gyre fonts are required. > They are installed in LilyPond's directory. > e.g. /usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf > > Do you think that URW fonts should be installed in the same directory? Good question. May

Re: Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-25 Thread lemzwerg
When you build current LilyPond, some TeX Gyre fonts are required. They are installed in LilyPond's directory. e.g. /usr/share/lilypond/current/fonts/otf Do you think that URW fonts should be installed in the same directory? Good question. Maybe yes. Or maybe a configuration option? https:

Re: Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-25 Thread trueroad
Reviewers: lemzwerg, Message: On 2016/10/25 06:29:32, lemzwerg wrote: LGTM. Note, however, that the new versions of URW fonts are considered problematic, since they differ too much from the original set of fonts (especially metrics) – this is the very reason that currently TeXLive doesn't u

Add Greek and Cyrillic glyph aliases (issue 316800043 by truer...@gmail.com)

2016-10-24 Thread lemzwerg
LGTM. Note, however, that the new versions of URW fonts are considered problematic, since they differ too much from the original set of fonts (especially metrics) – this is the very reason that currently TeXLive doesn't use them. https://www.preining.info/blog/2015/08/sins-of-the-past/ Admitted