Re: 2.99.7 ConTeXt, URW-Fonts

Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>>>>>>"Hartmut" == Hartmut Henkel <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> 
>   > [...] Several files are missing in teTeX; they come with
>   > cont-bas.zip on Hans' PRAGMA page:
> 
>   > texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/txfonts/tx8r.enc
> 
> There is no difference between tx8r.enc and 8r.enc and this is the
> reason tx8r.enc has been removed from teTeX.
> 
>>From tx8r.enc:
> 
> % 8r.enc (0.6, 1-jul-98, by S. Rahtz, P. MacKay, Alan Jeffrey, B. Horn, K. Berry) renamed
> /TeXBase1Encoding [
> /.notdef
> ...
> 
> The teTeX .map files use 8r.enc instead.
> 
> Hans, doesn't it make sense to remove tx8r.enc from your Context
> distribution? 
> 
> I'd even vote for removing them from CTAN.  In this case the map files
> in CTAN/tex-archive/fonts/[tp]xfonts/dvips/ have to be changed.  The
> [tp]xfonts are under GPL, BTW.

i'm getting pretty fed up with such changes; as with other changes (patterns to 
mention one) such drops/changes are not communicated, and the result is broken 
packages; it gets impossible to keep track of it and i fear that we tex's 
reputation for stability is kind of broken; i can imagine users who have their 
own additions to the tx fonts (for instance i know of people who have old style 
instances on their machines) and those will use the tx enc files; i see no 
problems in a few dupplicate files; (btw, similar things happened with the 
texnansi encoding, changes in hyphen chars, different enc files etc)

Hans

ps. a complication is that tx/px are kind of unmaintained; i started supporting 
them when they were posted on ctan, after that, each distribution (tlive) needed 
a different treatment, so i was kind of glad that there was finally some stability;

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