On 16-1-2011 4:44, Arthur Reutenauer wrote:
Anyway: being the reference, the garden minimals are the starting point. If one chooses for luatex/mkiv only only a fraction is needed: it could be nice study to see how small it can get.
I think the point is that if you want to do nice typography and / or support many different scripts and languages, you need a lot of fonts, which have the potential to make the size explode with virtually no limits (think CJKV...). That is anyway one of the conclusions that have been reached during the recent thread on the TeX Live list (about a hypothetical "modern" scheme for TeX Live).
sure, but I think that texlive fonts sort of got out of hands ... all those encodings and split type 1 files (for cjk etc) ... with the modern engines we can do with way less fonts btw, personally i now only use <texroot>/fonts/data/vendor/collection and not the afm/tfm/type1/vf/... structure which already makes it more convenient to manage fonts Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------