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Re: font problems
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Jonas Hahnfeld |
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Re: font problems |
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Sun, 18 Oct 2020 09:27:16 +0200 |
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Am Sonntag, den 18.10.2020, 06:53 +0200 schrieb Werner LEMBERG:
> > > * Reduce the number of extra fonts as much as possible to not
> > > increase the size of the documentation additionally. [Not much
> > > a problem I think since most fonts will be subsetted by
> > > ghostscript.]
>
>
> > I'd prefer to focus on fonts that are widely available. DejaVu and
> > Libertine are, I'm not sure about Iosevka and Libertinus (but maybe
> > the packages just have different names?).
>
> Iosevka seems to be an excellent font, but there are good
> alternatives. Libertinus is the (maintained) successor of Libertine,
> fixing buglets here and there.
Okay, but are there packages for the major distributions? Building
LilyPond is already hard (especially the documentation) and I don't
think we should add fonts that users have to download and install
manually.
> > Source Sans and Source Serif are by Adobe, are there equivalent
> > replacements?
>
> What's the problem with those Adobe fonts? They are completely free
> even in the GNU sense...
Okay.
Jonas
>
> Werner
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