<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="font-size:large">I'm sending this to inform the TeX community about this system:</span><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large"><a href="https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/" target="_blank">https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/</a><br></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">which claims to be a "modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine." It seems they have forked xelatex to download packages as needed.<br></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">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</div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">\ifxetex\XeTeXtracingfonts=1\fi<br></div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">command in roboto.sty. Indeed this will generate the messages but these normally go to the log file, not terminal output. I do not intend to remove this command from roboto.sty (or any of the other font packages I maintain) because of this "feature" of tectonic. </div><div style="font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-size:large">Bob T. </div></div>
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