[Pkg-lyx-devel] Bug#611970: Bug#611970: Please hide ttf-lyx from the font selector

[Fabian Greffrath]

Am 04.02.2011 11:33, schrieb Per Olofsson:
> Which font is that? I don't think there's a font named ttf-lyx. That's
> only the package name.

sure...

> Well, some of the fonts included in the package work for writing text:
> cmr10 (Computer Modern) and eufm10 (Euler Fraktur). The rest are symbol
> fonts, though.

sure, I was only talking about the symbol fonts.

> But there are fonts like OpenSymbol and Zapf Dingbats visible in the
> selector. Do you think they should be hidden too?

Yes, I've already filed a bug against ttf-opensymbol (#611969).

> Agreed. But then I think all symbol fonts should be hidden. Is there a
> consensus about this?

Not yet, but I've filed bugs about this against all the fonts I have 
discovered so far (i.e. ttf-lyx and ttf-opensymbol) and also against 
fontconfig (#611274) to provide a feature to hide these fonts by 
default based on specific tags (i.e. keywords in fonts.conf).

> According to fonts-conf(5):
> "Fonts matched by an rejectfont element are  "blacklisted";  such  fonts
> are  excluded  from  the  set  of  fonts used to resolve list and match
> requests as if they didn't exist in  the  system."
> AIUI, that means the fonts are not only unlisted, but will in fact never
> be used.

Oh, well, that's a bit strong I guess. So my request against 
fontconfig to only hide these fonts from font selectors while still 
keeping them available on the systems is valid.

Best Regards,
Fabian