<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 9, 2012, at 2:59 PM, Richard Seguin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">What is the purpose of \renewcommand{\ttdefault}{lmtt}? My document typesets with or without it, but I'm not sure if it is affecting anything. Is there an advantage to keeping it?<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Nothing much in this case, but some font packages don't define a T1 typewriter font, which can lead to mysterious messages about Metafont trying to create pk bitmaps for ectt. You can safely remove the line.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div><div><br></div></body></html>