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2020 Mar 25
2
Plotmath on Fedora 31 broken with with pango >= 1.44 - workarounds?
...at lists.fp.o to CC. A workaround is to avoid using PS
> fonts for symbols.
PS fonts are dead mid-term everywhere, and already forbidden in new
Fedora font packages (because we are somewhat leading edge, but not as
much as people think)
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US//packaging-guidelines/FontsPolicy/#_font_file_formats
PS font users need to switch to OpenType fonts or work with their
prefered font upstream to convert in modern well supported formats
(font format wars have endend last millenium, even before the browser
wars ended, it?s long past time to deprecate the losers).
That?s normal IT...
2020 Mar 25
3
Plotmath on Fedora 31 broken with with pango >= 1.44 - workarounds?
Dear list
On Fedora 31 the pango library has recently updated to version >= 1.44
and in doing so has switched to using the HarfBuzz library (from
FreeType) and dropped Adobe Type 1 font support. This causes problems
with plotmath as all bar one of the glyphs doesn't render (see
attached PNG image if it makes it through the list filters - if not I
have shared a copy via my google drive: