Bug#598351: texlive-latex-base: Error when using lmodern fonts together with T1 fontenc

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 28.09.10 Eugen Dedu (Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr) wrote:
> On 28/09/10 18:00, Eugen Dedu wrote:
> >On 28/09/10 15:36, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> >>On 28.09.10 Eugen Dedu (Eugen.Dedu@pu-pm.univ-fcomte.fr) wrote:

Hi,

> >>>Package: texlive-latex-base
> >>>Version: 2009-10
> >>>Severity: important
> >>>
> >>>I have an error when using lmodern fonts together with T1 fontenc
> >>>(as required by French babel to have correct hyphenation on
> >>>accentuated characters). When using pdflatex or latex on the
> >>>following text:
> >>>
> >>>\documentclass{report}
> >>>\usepackage{lmodern}
> >>>\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> >>>\usepackage[french]{babel}
> >>>\begin{document}
> >>>A.
> >>>\end{document}
> >>>
> >>>I receive always the following error:
> >>>
> >>>! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM)
> >>>file not found.
> >>><to be read again>
> >>>relax
> >>>l.100 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont
> >>>
> >>>?
> >>>) (/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
> >>>
> >>This tfm file is in texlive-latex-recommended. The description of it
> >>reads:
> >
> >Which file is in texlive-latex-recommended?
> >
> >snoopy:~/mmbug$ dpkg -S babel.sty
> >texlive-latex-base: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
> >snoopy:~/mmbug$ dpkg -S frenchb
> >texlive-latex-base: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg
> >texlive-latex-base: /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
> >[...]
> 
> Oh, I see, it's ec package in texlive-latex-recommended.  But why
> does that .tex example file need ec?!
> 
Because you're using the lmodern fonts, which use (IIRC) the metrics
from the EC fonts.

Ralf, is this correct?

H.
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