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Finding and using free fontsFinding and using free fontsPosted Jan 22, 2009 12:47 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769)In reply to: Finding and using free fonts by nim-nim Parent article: Finding and using free fonts
TEX and especially GUST have some good fonts.I thought TeX's fonts were in a different format (Metafont) which desktop environments and X11 do not support? Is there a way to turn Metafont typefaces like Computer Modern into Truetype or Opentype? I think it would need to be done separately for a range of sizes, since the shape of Metafont glyphs changes with font size (they are not simply scaled up and down). Unfortunately they don't make a lot of effort to check their licensing, making inclusion in law-abiding distros hardI think that TeX Live makes a good effort to include only free software and free fonts, which is why it can be included in Fedora.
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Finding and using free fonts Posted Jan 22, 2009 13:40 UTC (Thu) by nim-nim (subscriber, #34454) [Link]
1. Most TEX users do not realise, but modern TEX (XETEX...) can use TTF/OTF fonts. It has to because that's the formats the rest of the world uses so MF is an evolutionary dead-end. TEX users need to access fonts created by other projects (and other projects need access to TEX fonts)
For this reason recent TEX efforts produce OTF fonts (STIX, TEX Gyre, etc)
2. TEX people have been lax in licensing in the past (so many historic TEX fonts are not clearly licensed or cleanly licensed)
« I will leave texlive aside as an exercise in futility. I may write more about that if/when I ever manage to finish auditing that steaming pile. »¹
and GUST in particular continues to be (unauthorised relicensing of GPL GS fonts to their own pet license: see page 8 of
¹ http://spot.livejournal.com/303000.html (Tom Callaway handles licensing problems for Fedora)
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