Re: [cjk] [mailman] texlive svn write access Fw: Re: revisiting ttf2tfm and dvipdfmx

[Hin-Tak Leung]

Karl Berry wrote:
> Regarding freetype1: for the record, our plan/hope was to drop it next
> year (TeX Live 2014).  As Peter reminded me, once ttf2pk2 has been
> sufficiently tested (it's already in the TL repo), texk/ttf2pk can be
> dropped and freetype1 with it.
>
> So there's no point in spending time on it.

This whole thread is giving me the impression that ttf2pk2 has only been tested 
on Computer Modern Roman, and only intended for use with that one font. I 
sincerely hope that texk/ttf2pk continues to be available for another year or 
two, even if nobody is spending time on it.

There is still the indeterminism issue which is extremely easy to see on a few 
dozen of fonts from half a dozen vendors, and not touched upon.

FWIW, I did volunteer, which was the beginning of this thread.

Hin-Tak