Re: New lmodern package for teTeX 3
On 10.02.05 Florent Rougon (f.rougon@free.fr) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
Hi,
> > Maybe I'm dumb. IIRC Thomas has included lmodern into teTeX 3.0. So I
> > have no clue, what your packages gives me, which is not provided by
> > teTeX 3.0.
> > Please enlighten me.
>
> It gives:
>
> 1. Separation from teTeX (someone filed a bug report so that lmodern
> doesn't depend anymore on the tetex packages, and without the
> supposedly close release, I would have uploaded something like that
> already).
>
> 2. X and defoma support (therefore, also fontconfig).
>
> 3. The fonts can be updated before teTeX 4 (every time upstream
> releases new versions).
>
> 4. You don't have to deal with its bug reports. :-)
>
Great! Thanks. I guess Frank has taken the lmodern fonts out of
tetex-*-beta. I've never hat a look at your packages. Sorry!
H.
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