Re: \nocap does not work

[Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 07:33:22PM +0200, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
> 
> On Apr 13, 2010, at 7:16 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 
> > BTW, I just checked ghostscript fonts shipped with my distro and they
> > don't have any of the crappy Greek glyphs TeX Gyre have (neither do the
> > files linked from TeX Gyre web page), so I don't know from where TeX
> > Gyre got those.
> 
> 
> I contacted the Gyre team a while ago about the Greek, and they said they were not really meant to be used, but just placeholders until the "real" Greek will be developed. I offered help, but I don't know how to use metatype, I could just help them set up the Greek Extended glyphs once the proper characters are in place.
> 
> And btw: please tone down your messages a bit. You sound like you are foaming from the mouth, and that's quite unnecessary. As Hans said: all of this is open source, if you hate their style of doing things that much, just develop your own fonts. If people are developing free software, they also have the freedom to do the development exactly as they see fit. Where does this sense of entitlement come from?

Just because it is free software doesn't mean one can't criticize them,
actually because it is free software I do care about it. I didn't know
my tone was that high (well it is usually that high but I don't even
notice). Sure I can go and fork it, but it is pity that one have to
resort to this to just contribute a bug fix.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer
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