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texlive-extra package

URW-Garamond math fonts not installed

Bug #245873 reported by Peter Park Nelson
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Bug Description

The texlive-fonts-extra package lists URW-Garamond fonts, but they are not installed. I am using these fonts as math fonts with the mathdesign package and XeTeX (xelatex-xdvipdfmx) on Ubuntu 8.04.

The .vf and .tfm files are installed, but XeLaTeX exits with an error when the Garamond math fonts are used, stating that it is unable to generate bitmap fonts. I checked through the files and discovered that .pfb and .afm files were not installed, and the expected directories were not created by the installer; also, other LaTeX support files from ugm.zip were not unpacked, resulting in no map files for the fonts. Manual installation of the "garamond" package from CTAN resulted in everything working fine.

This bug may be related to #175644 in the context package: "gutsy: URW Garamond TeX tfm file installs, but font cannot be used." My error message appears to be the same.

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JasonVenkiteswaran (jjvenky) wrote :

as you did, the the files are here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/garamond/

the license may (or may not) be the problem with packaging them up. ctan lists the license as: "Noncommercial: free for private use but commercial use not permitted"

a README note somewhere would help.

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JasonVenkiteswaran (jjvenky) wrote :

perhaps getnonfreefonts-sys -all should be run or the option of running it should be presented when the fonts-extra package is installed.

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Norbert Preining (preining) wrote : Re: [Bug 245873] Re: URW-Garamond math fonts not installed

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, JasonVenkiteswaran wrote:
> ctan lists the license as: "Noncommercial: free for private use but
> commercial use not permitted"

Cannot be included in Debian. For Ubuntu I don't know.

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, JasonVenkiteswaran wrote:
> perhaps getnonfreefonts-sys -all should be run or the option of running
> it should be presented when the fonts-extra package is installed.

Please send this to the author of getnonfreefonts-sys

Best wishes

Norbert

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Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

From the description: This bug may be related to #175644 in the context package -> this bug was marked as invalid.

Anders (eddiedog988)
Changed in texlive-extra (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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