Behaviour of \latinfamily

[Ulrik Vieth]

Thierry wrote:

> i never use \latinfamily ;-) (because i prefered to use my own shell
> scripts to build driver files rather than rely on latinfamily, but i
> think \latinfamily{pbv}{} is more or less equivalent to

> \installfonts
>    \installfamily{8r}{pbv}{}
>    \installfamily{OT1}{pbv}{}
>    \installfamily{T1}{pbv}{}

Not quite.  It actually says:

   \installfonts 
      \installfamily{T1}{#1}{#2} 
      \installfamily{OT1}{#1}{#2} 
      \if_file_exists{ \raw_encoding.mtx }\then
         \installfamily{\raw_encoding}{#1}{#2}
      \fi
      \latin_weights 
   \endinstallfonts 

Since there is no 8r.mtx, if only does OT1 and T1, but not 8r.
Don't ask me why this is so.

Cheers, Ulrik.