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From: Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>
To: Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 14:28:32
Message-Id: 20150304152816.204d2830@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Fonts project meeting and elections by Ben de Groot
1 On Wed, 4 Mar 2015 20:51:44 +0800
2 Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Alexis, can you shed some light on this from the TeX side? What font
5 > formats can be used by various TeX packages?
6
7
8 Ahah :)
9 Short answer: All. More or less properly depending on the font and its
10 format.
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13 More detailed answer:
14 http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Fonts
15 xetex & luatex can use freetype/fontconfig; others usually rely on
16 conversion to tex native format (pk+tfm), automatically I am not sure
17 if the font doesnt come from the texmf tree
18
19 Alexis.