[tex-live] Bug#570993: texlive-fonts-extra: antiqua.sty missing

[Frank Küster]

severity 570993 wishlist
retitle 570993 Please check status of antiqua LaTeX support and consider including it
thanks

Hi,

Package: texlive-fonts-extra
Version: 2007.dfsg.17-1~lenny02
Severity: normal
According to <http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/antiqua/>, commands
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{antiqua}
should enable font Antiqua. However, on lenny, I am only able to get the
! LaTeX Error: File `antiqua.sty' not found.

No wonder, the package was never included in TeXLive. The fonts are
included, though, and the file antiqua.sty only contains trivial code:

\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
\ProvidesPackage{antiqua}
\renewcommand{\rmdefault}{uaq}
\endinput

Is there a reason not to include this? It appears to me as if TeXLive
contains the contents of CTAN://fonts/urw/antiqua/uaq.zip, not of
CTAN://fonts/psfonts/urwvf/*.

Regards, Frank

[Karl Berry]

Hi Frank,

Is there a reason not to include this? It appears to me as if TeXLive
contains the contents of CTAN://fonts/urw/antiqua/uaq.zip,

Plus the contents of urw/antiqua, it looks like. More or less. Sort of.

not of CTAN://fonts/psfonts/urwvf/*.

Well, in theory we could install urwvf easily enough. But as always
with these old font sets, things don't look simple.

They look like two different but overlapping sets of files to me. Both
uaq.zip and urwvf include many of the same tfm's and other stuff. I
didn't check if they are really the same. Furthermore, urwvf
conglomerates antiqua and grotesk. (I wonder if anyone actually uses
these two little fonts or if this is all just theory ...)

If the metrics are really the same, I guess I could go forward.
Otherwise, it looks to me like the cleanest way would be to prepare one
set of files, say "urwextra", which combines urwvf, antiqua, and
grotesk.

Anyone happen to know if ToMasz Wierzbicki (urwvf author) is still
active?

[Thomas Weber]

Post by Karl Berry
Hi Frank,
Is there a reason not to include this? It appears to me as if TeXLive
contains the contents of CTAN://fonts/urw/antiqua/uaq.zip,
Plus the contents of urw/antiqua, it looks like. More or less. Sort of.
not of CTAN://fonts/psfonts/urwvf/*.
Well, in theory we could install urwvf easily enough. But as always
with these old font sets, things don't look simple.
They look like two different but overlapping sets of files to me. Both
uaq.zip and urwvf include many of the same tfm's and other stuff. I
didn't check if they are really the same. Furthermore, urwvf
conglomerates antiqua and grotesk. (I wonder if anyone actually uses
these two little fonts or if this is all just theory ...)
If the metrics are really the same, I guess I could go forward.
Otherwise, it looks to me like the cleanest way would be to prepare one
set of files, say "urwextra", which combines urwvf, antiqua, and
grotesk.
Anyone happen to know if ToMasz Wierzbicki (urwvf author) is still
active?

I guess after two years it's clear this is going nowhere, so I'm just
closing this bug.

Thomas

[Karl Berry]

I guess after two years it's clear this is going nowhere, so I'm just
closing this bug.

Oh, it's been a lot longer than two years that the whole URW-in-TL
situation has been a mess. It remains on my list, but most likely I
will die before actually getting around to fixing it :).

karl