Re: please replace ttf-kochi to fonts-ipafont

[Werner LEMBERG]

> I'm maintainer of some Japanese fonts in Debian, and recently
> dropped ttf-kochi fonts from Debian repository and recommend to use
> fonts-ipafont-{gothic,mincho} as its replacement.

Just curious: Why?

> lilypond documentation specifies to use ttf-kochi-{gothic,mincho} now, so
> could you update it to fonts-ipafont-{gothic,mincho}? 
> 
> $ grep kochi -r ./
> ./Documentation/snippets/utf-8.ly:  ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho \
> ./Documentation/included/compile.itexi:ttf-kochi-gothic
> ./Documentation/included/compile.itexi:ttf-kochi-mincho
> ./Documentation/included/compile.itexi:        ttf-kochi-gothic 
> ttf-kochi-mincho \
> ./INSTALL.txt:          ttf-kochi-gothic
> ./INSTALL.txt:          ttf-kochi-mincho
> ./INSTALL.txt:        ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho \
> ./input/regression/utf-8.ly:  ttf-kochi-gothic ttf-kochi-mincho \

Whoever uses Debian: Everything should work out of the box if you
uninstall `ttf-kochi-{gothic,mincho}' and simply replace it with
`fonts-ipafont-{gothic,mincho}'.  Similarly, all changes to the
lilypond files as shown above is a simple search and replace; lilypond
doesn't load the Japanese fonts by name.

Since I don't use Debian I hesitate to provide a patch of my own;
additionally, it's probably necessary to update GUB accordingly.


    Werner