On Jul 5, 2018, at 2:41 AM, Hironobu Yamashita <h.y.acetaminophen@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for your comments.
They are available at https://github.com/texjporg/jfontmaps/releases/tag/20180328.0 https://github.com/texjporg/cjk-gs-support/releases/tag/20180306.0
Is there any reason why these packages are not also distributed with upstream TeX Live or at least with MacTeX? This is not an either-or question, it could be distributed via both different channels.
TL does not distribute packages which require nonfree files; "ptex-fontmaps-macos" and "cjk-gs-integrate-macos" require macOS-bundled fonts (Hiragino TTC format etc.), so they cannot go to TL
Dick, would you mind adding these packages into MacTeX?
The TeXLive in MacTeX is exactly the full TeXLive from TUG. Nothing is added and nothing is removed. I've enforced this condition for years. Adding the packages would mean violating this principle, which I am reluctant to do. As I understand it, the reason nonfree files aren't allowed in TeXLive is that TUG sells a DVD and nonfree files would complicate that task or make it impossible. To be honest, the DVD version of MacTeX doesn't include the MacTeX copy of TeX Live; instead users are asked to install it from the command line (to save space on the DVD). So the DVD is sort of a non-issue. But if I added the packages, the DVD version and the internet version would not be the same. Dick Koch PS: I just got back from San Francisco, where I heard The Ring and went to a symposium about it. At the symposium, I learned that the Gonzaga family in Italy during the Renaissance had the following motto; "Maybe yes. Maybe no."