[tex-live] [lltx] Updating TeXLive 2010 using tlgmr

Will Robertson wspr81 at gmail.com
Thu Sep 15 20:20:47 CEST 2011


(Sent quickly. Please excuse brevity.)

On 16/09/2011, at 12:00 AM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:

> I'm not sure what is the issue here either, but I think it would be good
> to not try to load fonts that is never used in the document, e.g. if I
> use fontspec and set a roman font and don't have any text using sans or
> typewriter fonts then why I need LM or any other font that I'm not using
> at all?

Because users first try to load the package without selecting a font and wonder why their accents don't work.

I might change fontspec to only load LM if no other font has been selected in the preamble. I'm still unsure whether LM is included or not in tex live or miktex minimal installations; I always assumed it was and this is the first time I've heard otherwise. 

Will


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