Andrea Neroni wrote: > Now, to my questions. Why is Xelatex now required, what changed in the > class? > > How can I solve the latter error? I believe it could be a bug in the > moderncv class, should I report it to package maintainers?
Something I learned about latex - never touch a running system! better put all of this in a change rooted environment and never touch it. everything else leads to hours of configuring and testing the results.