[Bug 477394] [groff] Please convert to new font packaging guidelines

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Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at redhat.com> changed:

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--- Comment #11 from Jan Vcelak <jvcelak at redhat.com> 2010-07-30 12:32:06 EDT ---
Nicolas, there is no problem in searching for fonts. Let me explain better:

'groff -Tps' is used to create PostScript documents. It uses it's own font
description files, which can be generated by 'afmtodit' from AFM (Adobe Font
Metrics) files. These files contain only general font description and font
metrics information. Not the font itself. (These files are shipped with groff
distribution for the most popular fonts.)

When you open the document (or sent it to the printer), then the document
viewer (or printer) has to look up required fonts. groff doesn't care.

These three *.pfa files are not real fonts. If they are used in groff source
document, they are embeded into resulting ps file.

= freeeuro.pfa =
Contains only one symbol which, I think, is not worthy of creating a font
subpackage. In addition, it is not shipped separately as a font. It was created
only for groff and it is shipped with it.

= symbolsl.pfa =
Doesn't contain the font, it requires Symbol font on target device and it just
changes it's metrics. 20 lines, 4 kilobytes. I don't consider this to be a
font.

= zapfdr.pfa =
The same here. This font requires ZapfDingbats font on target device. And it
creates reverse variant of it by changing it's metrics. (Suppose it is used for
decoration.) 218 lines, 8 kilobytes.

I would call all *.pfa files above "PS document extensions" rather than
"fonts". And if the only problem is pfa extension, I can easily rename these
files.

Do you agree?

Jan

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