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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

reopen 598351
retitle 598351 when compiling a document using lmodern w/ T1 encoding the tfm files from the EC fonts are read
severity 598351 minor
stop

On 30.09.10 Ralf Stubner (ralf.stubner@web.de) wrote:

Hi Ralf,

> No, the lmodern fonts come with their own set of TFM files. At the
> moment I cannot reproduce the issue, since I don't have the time to
> prepare a system without texlive-latex-recommended. However, I am
> wondering if the supplied example is really minimal, ie, is babel with
> option french required?
> 
With the following minimal example the compile runs fine w/o EC tfm
files installed:

\documentclass{report}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
\begin{document}
A.
\end{document}

However one gets a warning:

Package frenchb.ldf Warning: OT1 encoding should not be used for French.
(frenchb.ldf)                Add \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} to the preamble
(frenchb.ldf)                of your document, on input line 5.

Hence the submitter added the \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}, which
requires fonts w/ T1 encoding. Simply using the lmodern package does
not cause the problem, they can be used w/ OT1 encoding too.

So, if the lmodern fonts have they own tfm files (which is the case)
it is not understandable, why the tfm files of the EC fonts are
used/read.

hille@sid:~ $ dpkg -L lmodern |grep tfm|grep cork|wc -l
57

One could assume this behaviour to be a bug, but far from important.

H.
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