Re: lmodern fonts and sarge

[Florent Rougon <florent.rougon@free.fr>]

Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp> wrote:

> From very different point of view, I feel that
>
> if lmodern supports defoma very well then new tetex
> packages without lmodern stuffs and to keep lmodern 
> as a separate package might be possible idea, IMHO.

I don't think it is desirable to have one package provide fonts and
another package register them, be it defoma or anything else.

> Further, it might be also possible idea that we separate
> some fonts stuffs out of tetex-base and create tetex-fonts
> or something similar package which will support defoma
> and of course will include lmodern.

I like this idea much better.

> But a problem is; once I tried to investigate defoma
> a bit but failed to understand it so I'm afraid I can't 
> maintain such font package sufficiently well.

OK.

> Is there anyone who knows defoma sufficiently in details?

Me: not yet. I said the highest priority for me was to get the lmodern
fonts usable with TeX-related programs. I _will_ investigate defoma
later (probably in less than 2 months) but until now, I've only read
parts of its documentation (to know how it would deal with the TeX
encodings such as T1, and to make sure it handles PostScript Type 1
fonts).

-- 
Florent