Fwd: tectonic

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:34:07 -0400 schrieb Bob Tennent:

> I'm sending this to inform the TeX community about this system:
> 
> https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/
> 
> which claims to be a "modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX
> engine."   It seems they have forked xelatex to download packages as needed.
> 
> I received a complaint from a tectonic user that using the roboto package
> generated many "Requested font" warning messages in the user output. A
> tectonic developer attributed this to the
> 
> \ifxetex\XeTeXtracingfonts=1\fi
> 
> command in roboto.sty.  Indeed this will generate the messages but these
> normally go to the log file, not terminal output.  

They (or the user) did perhaps set \tracingonline=1. That would have
that effect.

\documentclass{article}

\tracingonline=1
\usepackage{roboto}

\begin{document}
Testing 
\end{document}

-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/