gavin> Is it the same story with lmodern which is another frequently
recommended font package?
I don't know. Norbert, is lm a recommends in Debian? That might be
enough reason to \usepackage{lmodern} by default. If not, for the sake
of minimalism, I would suggest just sticking with the
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 04:43:04PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Patrice, Gavin - I've been talking with my friend Norbert Preining, who
> used to be the Debian maintainer of the texlive packages. (He's also one
> of the principal maintainers, with me and a couple others, of upstream
> TeX Live.)
>
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 08:23:11AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> > He's willing in principle to suggest that cm-super[-minimal] become part
> > of the recommended TeX packages, but I'm not sure that is warranted.
>
> I just suggested two possible options, both I don't mind:
> - make cm-super
[texinfo.tex 2022-09-26.17]
Consider this example (using `image.pdf` from the 'texinfo' git
repository).
```
\input "texinfo.tex"
blablabla blablabla blablabla blablabla
blablabla blablabla blablabla blablabla
@image{image,4cm}
blablabla blablabla blablabla blablabla
blablabla blablabla
Hi Werner
On Fri, 30 Sep 2022, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > - make cm-super a dependency of texinfo (next version, in Debian)
> > that way the package will be pulled in in any case
>
> IMHO that's the way to go.
I agree that for texinfo this is the proper solution.
Still, thinking that using T1
On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 04:43:04PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
>
> If you want any action to be taken, let me know. --thanks, karl.
I sent a mail to tldistro to get information on cm-super being installed
or not in other distros. Hopefully, this should help us know to what
extent having cm-super
On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 08:23:11AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> - make cm-super (the full set) a "recommends" of
> texlive-fonts-recommended
> This will install it automatically unless the user explicitly disables
> installation of recommended packages.
I can't say for
