Re: current state of cm-super

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

"RB" == Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br>

Rogerio,

Sorry to take so long to get back to you.

I've been able to use pdflatex to create PDFs using the cm-super
fonts (also in sarge).  The secret is to include the line

   \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

in your preamble.  If that still doesn't work for you, please let
me know, and maybe send me more details about the way that your
system is set up (versions of the teTeX packages, output of
``kpsewhich -progname=pdflatex -format="dvips config" pdftex.map''
and an ``ls -l'' of that file, etc.).

    RB> BTW, I haven't followed closely the discussions on
    RB> d-tetex-maint (I'm not subscribed), but can I suggest that
    RB> when you break down the package you create a cm-super
    RB> package which depends on, say, cm-super-debfiles,
    RB> containing configuration files for Debian and
    RB> cm-super-fonts (possibly with other subdivisions) for the
    RB> fonts themselves.

This idea sounds good, and I'll think about it.  The problem is
that all the material comes from the same source tarball, which
means that updating one aspect would result in rebuilding all the
packages, even though they wouldn't really be changing.  It might
be necessary to create a separate source package for each major
component.

    RB> This way, if one changes just how the fonts plug into
    RB> tetex, a small download would be sufficient (I suppose
    RB> that the fonts themselves would be somewhat stable).

Hopefully we won't need to change that very often, either, as I
think that teTeX's method of handling the configuration files has
stabilized, and that the configuration files for cm-super are
pretty much where they need to be for use with TeX.  (Getting them
to work with other applications is a whole other can of worms.)

Thanks for your feedback, I hope that this message helps you get
things working.

   Claire

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