[tex-live] Using LM instead of CM

[Ralf Stubner]

Zdenek Wagner <wagner at cesnet.cz> writes:
> CSTUG already has a project for testing the possibility of replacing CS
> with LM and communicating problems which have to be solved.

Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> writes:
> afaik, the polish have decided to switch; cs should be ok as well (their 
> remarks have been taken into account in v 1.0) and from the start it has 
> been the intention to replace vn as well;

Ok, since the CS, PL and VN versions of CM have official maintainers, I
assume that there will be some sort of announcement (especially for
distributers) when everything has been sorted out. 


Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> continues to write:
> the aer stuff can also go

I don't understand this. The AE fonts are just a bunch of virtual fonts
to make CM look like (almost) T1 encoded.

> (for what it's worth: context users already switched previous tex live, 
> although unfortunately some unfortunate last minute changes in the 
> official map files made things fail, but users know how to update -)

Do you mean you are using LM with CM metrics, or have you changed to use
LM alltogether? I had assumed the latter were the case. And I really
would prefer if it were possible for LaTeX, too.

cheerio
ralf