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author Alexander Verbovetsky <alik@ejik.org>2016-09-24 07:03:04 +0700
committer Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2016-09-24 07:03:04 +0700
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+The Public Type (PT) fonts are free OFL licensed fonts released in
+2009-2011 by the ParaType company. They consists of PT Sans (includes 8
+styles), PT Serif (6 styles), and PT Mono (2 styles) families.
+
+The fonts cover a long list of Eurasian languages based on Latin and
+Cyrillic scripts.
+
+The PT fonts were primarily designed by Alexandra Korolkova.
+
+The texlive-fonts package contains a different variant of PT fonts in
+/usr/share/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/paratype/
+The present package contains fonts with the truetype specific
+hhea-metrics adapted for linux environment.
+
+PT fonts are primarily designed to be used with subpixel hinting (aka
+ClearType) activated.
+
+When using subpixel hinting, it is recommended to disable embedded
+bitmaps for these fonts by using the following fontconfig setting:
+
+<edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign">
+ <bool>false</bool>
+</edit>