Will Robertson <[email protected]> wrote: > (Sent quickly. Please excuse brevity.) > > On 16/09/2011, at 12:00 AM, Khaled Hosny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm not sure what is the issue here either, but I think it would be good > > to not try to load fonts that is never used in the document, e.g. if I > > use fontspec and set a roman font and don't have any text using sans or > > typewriter fonts then why I need LM or any other font that I'm not using > > at all? > > Because users first try to load the package without selecting a font > and wonder why their accents don't work.
fair enough. they need an error message rather than selecting a font for them. we've surely had enough of "latex's all right, but the font's a bore", from the default of cm in the old days. > I might change fontspec to only load LM if no other font has been > selected in the preamble. I'm still unsure whether LM is included or > not in tex live or miktex minimal installations; I always assumed it > was and this is the first time I've heard otherwise. definitely not. but then texlive minimal doesn't contain latex, either so it's not an issue in the current context ;-) (you asked earlier why cm _is_ in texlive minimal ... and the answer is, that way don knuth can use it. the same reason we have a non-etex non-pdftex "tex" executable. it's tiresome, but if it weren't for him, we wouldn't be having all this <cough>fun</cough> in the first place.) anyway, _you_ needn't worry about an error report from don! ;) robin
