Wishlist: Default to fonts with wide glyph support
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pandoc (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I am trying to write Markdown with Russian, German etc examples. I would like for this to work out of the box.
What I am using now, which works nicely, is this:
pandoc --latex-
It requires texlive-xetex and ttf-linux-
Without these, the Russian text would render as blanks in the generated PDF file, with no warnings at any point. At the very least, it would be useful if there was a warning either from the PDF renderer or from the PDF generator when there is a problem with the glyphs. But I digress.
In order to support Pandoc out of the box, could these choices be made defaults on Ubuntu?
$ apt-cache policy pandoc
pandoc:
Installed: 1.12.2.1-1build2
Candidate: 1.12.2.1-1build2
Version table:
*** 1.12.2.1-1build2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
Release: 14.04
Changed in pandoc (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
For what it's worth, I changed my own Makefile to use "Liberation Mono" for the monospace font. This is typographically somewhat more pleasing in many respects.