On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Will Robertson wrote:
> I would highly recommend deprecating both AE & CM in favour of the LM
> fonts.
This is no option. We provide support for all fonts if possible. It's the
choice of the users what font he wants to use.
True; I'd then suggest you should use LM as the default from now on. It
would give better output for many cases (especially since your font
encoding default is T1 and not all users will have the CMSuper fonts
installed).
> Aside from exact backwards compatibility, there's no reason to keep AE &
> CM at all :)
Please think about this again! CM are well designed fonts, so why should we
forbid users to use it? CM is still used by publishers.
Uh, because LM is the same design (based on the exact same PostScript curves)
but better implemented? :) There are real improvements in the LM fonts.
Hi Will,
That sounds interesting, can you substantiate that claim? (Or maybe
someone else can verify it?)
Personally I can't see a reason why LM shouldn't be the default, but I'm
not knowledgebable about this.
There have also been complaints that the lmodern package is about 12MB
download size, because in many countries they don't have internet
flatrates, only 56k modems in Internet cafés.
If it's the default only when LM exists, would that work?
But I would prefer to bring them up here, rather than open tickets in
bugzilla only to have them closed without discussion.
You are certainly welcome to bring up issues here, in fact that's what I
do. Sometimes it's also convenient to refer to the discussions here in the
bugzilla issue in order to provide more detail.
Anyway, I'd file an enhancement request to make LM the default, but I
think Uwe could have good input on this.
best regardsd,
/Christian
PS. I'm off on vacation now, for real :-)
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
