On 2015-11-25, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Am 25.11.2015 um 09:32 schrieb Guenter Milde:
Dear Uwe, thanks for the response, I think we are on a good way. >>> On which system there is no Latin Modern? >> While they are in every TeX distribution, they are not necessarily in every >> TeX *installation*. > Do you know a LyX user wh does not use a TeX distribution? > ... We can safely concentrate on the distributions. Since Latin Modern > is part of all, we can assume it to be there. No. Many users (including myself) don't use a *complete* TeX distribution and many users don't use an automatic download of missing files (including all TeXLive users, as this is a special MikTeX feature). In my Debian-packaged TeXLive, Latin Modern is *recommended* but not *required*. A user installs LyX with minimal requirements will not have it. I know this is a rare case but if you want to be sure a font is installed on every site, you are restricted to the set of "required" fonts: 7-bit CM and the common PostScript fonts in http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss >> If you want to keep Latin Modern for the manuals (at least for the >> "advanced" ones), we have the alternatives: >> a) remove the preamble code loading "lmodern.sty" and >> select Latin Modern in the document settings >> +1 clean, simple, good practice >> -1 needs agreement from other developers, as manuals may no longer >> compile on a minimal installation. > I vote for this and I would even do this for LyX 2.2.0 if nobody has a > good argument against this. Manuals requiring packages outside the required¹ set can IMO use LModern via the GUI setting. However, for 2.2.0 this would require approvement by our release manager. ¹ http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required ... IMO, LM should not be required for the "simple" manuals. We could use preamble code optionally setting Latin Modern or use PSNFSS fonts via the GUI. > Since years also the Intro and Tutorial is using Latin Modern. Only > splash does not use it. However, they use it "optionally" via preamble code. And compiling splash takes ages because first the bitmap fonts need to be generated. I prefer PSNFSS fonts for simple manuals (splash, Intro, Tutorial). The Development guide says: The different files use different formatting styles. That is OK and has historic reasons nobody fully know ;-). so it should be OK if they have also different fonts when printed... Please try, e.g., Palatino, Helvetica, Courier and tell about problems. Thanks, Günter
