[tex-k] problem with Tex Live 2024 and the newtxtext font package

[Dana Nau]

I’m writing to report a bug that occurs when I use the newtxtext font 
package with Tex Live 2024. I don’t know whether it’s TeX or the 
font package that’s responsible, so I hope it’s OK that I’m 
addressing this report to the maintainers of both.

The problem is that with newtxtext and Tex Live 2024, the sans serif 
font is too large. This problem can be observed by compiling the 
following latex source in both Tex Live 2023 and Tex Live 2024, and 
comparing their outputs (see attached):

> \documentclass[11pt]{article}
> \usepackage{newtxtext}
> \begin{document}
> This is a test of the \textsf{sans serif typeface problem}. It looks 
> OK in Tex Live 2023, and too big in Tex Live 2024.
> \end{document}
>

In case it might matter, I’m using the following version of TeX, from 
the MacTeX 2024 distribution:

> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.26 (TeX Live 2024) 
> (preloaded format=pdflatex)

I’ve found two work-arounds. One is to use newtx instead of newtxtext. 
Unfortunately, that’s not an option for the book I’m writing, 
because one of my co-authors uses TeX Live 2021, which doesn’t include 
newtx. The other work-around is to use Tex Live 2023, in which newtxtext 
works fine — so that’s what I’m doing for now.

Thanks, all of you, for all your work on LaTeX!

Dana S. Nau, Professor Emeritus
Dept of Computer Science, and Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland, College Park
+1-301-405-2684
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau

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