[tex-live] Updating TeXLive 2010 using tlgmr - esint.sty missing

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 23:45:10 CEST 2011


2011/9/13 Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>:
> On 2011-09-13 at 22:28:19 +0200, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>  > You can probably still install fonts for MacTeX 2011 with
>  >    tlmgr install lm
>  >
>  > The reason why they are missing is because they belong to
>  > collection-fontsrecommended. If they would belong to
>  > collection-basic, they would be included in basic installation.
>
> Sure, but they don't belong there.  collection-basic provides plain
> TeX and LaTeX and is supposed to be small, especially because the new
> engines are able to use system fonts and for pdfTeX the OTF are
> useless.
>
> IMO the problem is caused by fontspec and should be fixed there.  Why
> should one be forced to install a font which one doesn't use?
>
LaTeX needs a fallback font that is used if the requested font cannot
be found and no substitution works. In classical LaTeX, CM fonts play
this role. Does anyone have better idea for XeLaTeX than LM fonts?

> BTW, fontspec loads the metrics only, the font doesn't appear in the
> PDF file.
>
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
>
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