Font problem with TL'20

[David Carlisle]

On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 at 17:42, Boris Veytsman <borisv at lk.net> wrote:

> DC> From: David Carlisle <d.p.carlisle at gmail.com>
> DC> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 07:47:51 +0000
>
>
> DC> yes I'll look, in  fact any packages using problematic \fontseries or
> DC> \DeclareFontShape were flagged with the package maintainers months
> before
> DC> the release (and I think by now most got changed) I think this slipped
> DC> through as it is using \usefont which we may have not searched for.
>
> It looks like packages on CTAN but not in TL (because of proprietary
> fonts) were not flagged.  I was not contacted about some of my
> packages and got burned in my production...
>
> --
> Good luck
>
> -Boris
>
>
Boris, If there are examples that are doing the  wrong thing it would be
useful if you could add to
https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/issues/299
and we can see if compatibility can be improved.


David

If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
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