On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Will Robertson <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 14/09/2011, at 6:26 AM, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>
>> On 2011-09-13 at 17:03:23 +0200, SKL wrote:
>>
>>> Checking some discussion boards I believe that this might be a bug
>>> in XeTex - I am not using any of the LM fonts AFAIK as I have
>>> substituted everything with Apple fonts, but nevertheless XeTeX
>>> requires those fonts to be present for some reason (of course it
>>> might also be that I am still using LM in some of the less obvious
>>> places because I failed to specify a correct font, but I am not
>>> sure how to test for this
>
> [snip]
>
>> It doesn't happen with
>> ---------------------------------
>> \documentclass{minimal}
>> \usepackage{mathpazo}
>> \stop
>> ---------------------------------
>> , presumably because mathpazo correctly switches to Palatino before
>> switching to T1. It would be nice if fontspec can do the same.
>
> Nope, mathpazo doesn't switch to T1 at all.
>
> I've read through this thread and I can't figure out what fontspec is doing
> wrong here. Years ago there was an option to not load the LM fonts, but don't
> minimal TeX installations come with LM by default?
Not all "minimal/basic" distributions include LM. I assume people
using those small SSD drives and creating documents that only need
system fonts hope to avoid installing the 12 MB lm.tar.xz package.
> FWIW, the code that fontspec uses to select Latin Modern is
>
> %<xetexx>\tl_set:Nn \g_fontspec_encoding_tl {EU1}
> %<luatex>\tl_set:Nn \g_fontspec_encoding_tl {EU2}
> \tl_set:Nn \rmdefault {lmr}
> \tl_set:Nn \sfdefault {lmss}
> \tl_set:Nn \ttdefault {lmtt}
> \RequirePackage[\g_fontspec_encoding_tl]{fontenc}
>
> Are you saying there should there be a \normalfont before loading fontenc?
It is useful to be able to rely on some basic set of fonts -- enough to format
canonical examples such as sample2e.tex and story.tex -- but that should not
require a big chunk of an expensive SSD.
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