[tex-live] Using LM instead of CM

[Hans Hagen]

Ralf Stubner wrote:
> 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. 
>
>   
the PL people are the same as the LM people; the CS maintainer are 
already discussing the move; the VN maintainers are aware of LM as well, 
so no additional announcements are needed; just wait till the PL/CS/VN 
stuff disappears magically

> 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.
>   
indeed, but we don't need virtual fonts any more
>   
>> (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.
>   
i exclusively use LM with the texnansi, ec, qx and x5 metrics (and soon with the el dense encoding metrics);  the only place where old cm metric files are used is in math

because context already had pl/cs/vn/etc support kind of hidden for the user (automatic) the change for users was not that large; no special packages need to be loaded and such 

Hans 

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