Summary: | media-fonts/croscorefonts-1.31.0 should install /usr/share/fonts/croscorefonts/SymbolNeu.ttf or should not install 62-croscore-symbolneu.conf | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Carl Michal <michal> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Gentoo Fonts Team <fonts> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | kernelpanic, thomas |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Carl Michal
2019-10-24 06:56:38 UTC
At one time, the glyphs in the Symbol font were used to render mathematical expressions. That function has been moved into the browser, consequently Google no longer saw a need to distribute Symbol Neu and dropped it from the package. Symbol remains one of the four Postscript fonts and is needed to render very old PDF files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol_(typeface) It may well make sense to drop SymbolNeu (though some of us dinosaurs still find it necessary) - but if it is dropped, the package should not install 62-croscore-symbolneu.conf which advertises SymbolNeu font as an alias for Symbol. I'd prefer to have the SymbolNeu font broken out into a separate package. That way it can be installed together with the latest version of the Chrome OS fonts. A Symbol font is unfortunately sometimes needed. That would be great. The config file should get broken out with it! |