On 2011-09-19, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.berlios.de> wrote: >>> (This is also reminiscent of the debate on automatically setting fonts >>> for new documents other than the 'default' CM; ...
However, with font-encoding T1, the used font is not CM but either DC (a bitmap CM lookalike) or CM-Super (an auto-traced CM lookalike). >> We could, however change the settings in "Document Defaults" in the >> "reconfigure" step (if not already customized). This would work for both, >> Document Language (set according to locale) and Document Fonts (use Latin >> Modern if it is installed). This way, a new user gets a non-surprising, >> high-quality default document but customization is as easy as before. > This makes sense, although it still doesn't cover up the case that > proved a show-stopper when we last discussed the issue: some LaTeX > classes don't use CM as default, while others, I hear, are simply > optimised for their respective default font (which is not necessarily > CM). So I don't think that we want to impose by default a CM > look-alike on such documents. Of course not. For supported classes that set up a default font, the layout file should record this in a sensible way (say via a "provides-font" keyword). * Document>Settings>Font should show the classes' default font, * eventually existing templates should keep the default font setting, Günter
