[tex-live] [Bug 179725] ucs c00 encoding should use chinese arphic fonts

[Norbert Preining]

Package: texlive-latex-recommended
Version: 2007-13
Severity:normal

Dear Dominique, dear Herbert, dear TeX Live team,

(Herbert:) thanks for the bug report, I have created a image of it in
the Debian Bug Database.

(TeX Live Team:) all for your information

(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).

Do you see any other problems with the approach taken below?

Would it be possible to include this in a new release of ucs?

(For Debian/Ubuntu:) I guess if we get a positive answer I will patch
this into the current TeX Live packages. Hopefully it will be fixed
upstream, too.

Thanks a lot and all the best in the new year

Norbert

On Di, 01 Jan 2008, Herbert Schmid wrote:
> Public bug reported:
> 
> Binary package hint: texlive-latex-recommended
> 
> c00enc.def refers to the definition of the sung bitmap font, while this
> definition seems not be included in any texlive package.
> 
> anyway, as I read the dependencies of latex-cjk-chinese people should
> use the new arphic truetype fonts anyway and not the old bitmaps fonts.
> 
> the following patch removes the need for the missing bitmap sung
> definition file in favor for the arphic bsmi truetype font.
> 
> the file c00enc.def belongs to the ctan package ucs and is included in
> the ubuntu package texlive-latex-recommended.
> 
> --- 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
> 
> ** Affects: texlive-base (Ubuntu)
>      Importance: Undecided
>          Status: New
> 
> -- 
> ucs c00 encoding should use chinese arphic fonts
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/179725
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> TeX Maintainers, which is a bug contact for texlive-base in ubuntu.

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