[Pkg-lyx-devel] Re: Source for latex-xft-fonts?

[John Levon]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 08:11:22PM +0100, Per Olofsson wrote:

> There is a bug filed against the latex-xft-fonts Debian package about
> the lack of source code for it (http://bugs.debian.org/402148). This
> prevents the package from entering etch (the upcoming stable release
> of Debian).
> 
> Apparently the fonts have been converted from the corresponding LaTeX
> .pfb fonts. Does anyone know how this was done? Is it possible to
> automate?

I've entirely forgotten how I did it, but it definitely involved some
manual fixing of the fonts. I used some popular open-source font editor,
which I've also forgotten, and I had to fix some stuff up if I remember
rightly.

I have no idea what "sources" they're looking for. It's like complaining
a .jpg doesn't have sources when it's a scanned in photo.

One solution might be to add the missing families to Mozilla's TTF
fonts, and get them working with LyX?

regards
john