Comment 4 for bug 179725

Norbert, thanks for the TeX-related bug triaging work you've been doing.

On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:44:40PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> (Dominique:) We got the following bug report which relates to the ucs
> package. It seems that the mentioned sung bitmap font is not available,
> while the arphic fonts are widely available and packaged for at least
> Debian and Ubuntu (and for sure for many others, too).

I know the Arphic fonts are available in Fedora (though probably not
installed by default) in TTF form, but not sure if they have the LaTeX
format (Type1?) packaged. The Debian/Ubuntu packages are made from TTF
files using fontforge.

Also, if it is decided to make such change, I would like to ask if it's
possible to consider satisfying both the similified Chinese users (use
"gbsn", provided by Debian's latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-gbsn00lp package)
and the tranditional Chinese users (use "bsmi", provided by Debian's
latex-cjk-chinese-arphic-bsmi00 package).

> > --- usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ucs/c00enc.def_orig 2006-05-15 21:12:54.000000000 +0200
> > +++ usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/ucs/c00enc.def 2008-01-01 21:20:38.000000000 +0100
> > @@ -15,6 +15,6 @@
> > %%
> > \ProvidesFile{c00enc.def}[2001/10/11 Fontencoding C00 (Big5)]%
> > \DeclareFontEncoding{C00}{}{}%
> > -\DeclareFontSubstitution{C00}{song}{m}{n}%
> > +\DeclareFontSubstitution{C00}{bsmi}{m}{n}%
> > \input{cenccmn.tex}%
> > -\expandafter\let\csname C00/song/m/n\endcsname\undefined
> > +\expandafter\let\csname C00/bsmi/m/n\endcsname\undefined

Ming
2008.01.06