td composer requesting style files and icons from child theme directory

I created a child theme for some customizations as per your tutorial. I am noticing an issue with the td-composer “icon” element when editing a page. The icon menu on the left sidebar is full of blanks.

To recreate the issue:

* Set up a Newspaper-child theme and select it as the active theme. I’m using Newspaper 8.7.5, composer 2.3
* create a new page, editing in td composer
* drag the “icon” element into a row. this is the green icon element from td-multipurpose now embedded in composer.
* click the icon in the page to open the edit form on the left side. click the tiny icon on there to pull up the menu to choose a new icon. this is the menu which will have a bunch of empty place holders.

Diving into the browser debugger, I discover that the following resources are being requested directly from the child theme, which results in a 404 not found error:

/wp-content/themes/Newspaper-child/images/icons/newspaper.woff?15
/wp-content/themes/Newspaper-child/images/icons/newspaper.ttf?15
/wp-content/themes/Newspaper-child/images/icons/newspaper.svg?15#newspaper
/wp-content/themes/Newspaper-child/font-newspaper.css

The tutorial does not say we need to copy these over.

If I symlink the images directory and the css file to the originals in the parent theme directory, the td-composer icon element shows the icons in the menu when editing.

Is this the correct solution? Did I miss some setting in the child theme that controls this? Or is this a bug in the theme or td-composer?

Also, for some reason, after I added those symlinks, the file wp-content/plugins/td-composer/includes/templates/td-multipurpose.php was overwritten with a different version that changed how references to the icons were made.

Why does Newspaper8 (and its plugins) modify its own code? That seems a bit suspect to me.