Re: font problems

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

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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