Uwe Stöhr wrote: > > I personally agree with Will. Most users won't know how to change the > document font; I barely know > myself. > > What? It's just a click in the document settings under fonts. A more > detailed description is given in the UserGuide. > > > A beautiful default would be best. > > This is pain. CM are not beautiful? Beauty is a matter of taste, but to be > objective, CM are very well designed.
this is not what is the question about. we dont abuse cm, but when lm is the same with some improvement, lm is natural choice. > I'm using lmodern anyway privately and also try to use them for the LyX > docs. But I hopefully clearly stated why we should leave CM as default. I'm > a bit disappointed that none of my arguments are argued: > > - why lmodern and not TeXGyre or another font? because we don't want some "new" font. just that better font of what we have used up to now appeared. > - lmodern is not part of every default TeX installation this is serious objection, which needs some exploration about particular tex distros in case we want lm. > - lmodern is about 12 MB to download and we got complaints that I we even > check if this font is installed as this could lead to a package download, > but not everybody has a flatrate as far as cm x lm you have two kinds of complaints: (a) we want better typeset or (b) we want smaller downloading. i dont think these two points can be somehow reasonably argued, so its more question of voting in this particular point. i would vote for a. that said i think the main argument came from Enrico, that we shouldn't make more complex headers and implementing AI aspects, with which i agree. what i see now we could do: 1. some better advertisment of lmodern usage. i'm using lyx for years and without Will i won't be aware about this. 2. i wanted to setup lmodern as default at least for me, but ouch, we don't have such setting in environment preferences (not document). maybe we could add it too? 3. more info in userguide about the difference between cm x lm. pavel
