Bug#576599: texlive-xetex requires lmodern fonts
Hi
On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:33:19 +0200
Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> I'm sorry! I don't use XeTeX and I don't really now, which
> requirements must be met.
>
> > In addition I just do not understand at all why Xetex cannot
> > compile the file even though I do not use and need this package ???
> >
> I tried to reproduce the problem on Debian unstable with
> texlive-xetex installed, but not lmodern. I get a different error
> message:
>
> (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/xelatex/euenc/eu1lmr.fd)kpathsea:
> Invalid fontname `[lmroman10-regular]', contains '['
>
> ! Font EU1/lmr/m/n/10=[lmroman10-regular]:mapping=tex-text at 10.0pt
> ! not loadab
> le: Metric (TFM) file or installed font not found.
> <to be read again>
> relax
> l.100 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont
>
> I seems that xelatex tries to use the fonts provided by lmodern w/o
> reading the lmodern.sty itself.
>
> I suggest an "Recommends: lmodern" to texlive-xetex. I don't see why
> texlive-xetex needs lmodern in *all* cases and is unusable w/o it.
>
> Is that OK for you? apt will install recommended packages by default
>
Thanks for your effort! I think it’s a good idea to add ‘lmodern’ as
recommendation to the ‘texlive-xetex’ package. But I ask you to wait
doing so until I’ve received an answer from the Xetex mailing list. I
wrote them an e-mail and described our problem [1] because I’m no Xetex
guru either and I think that if there’s someone that can help us, then
it’s somone from tug.org.
Best regards
Raphael
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1. http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2010-April/016321.html
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