On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:10:06 +0100
"Mojca Miklavec"
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
Am 2008-03-03 um 17:44 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
- or to patch ConTeXt to use xdv2pdf instead of xdvipdfmx + rewrite a bunch of definitions that load Latin Modern (they should not be loaded since xdv2pdf doesn't support "traditional TeX-installed fonts")
Since there are OpenType LM fonts now, one could just install them for the OS.
True. But there are to mechanisms to load fonts: by font name or by filename. By filename only works in xdvipdfmx and by font name requires the font to be installed (and thus cannot be made the default/cannot be expected from users).
If there were enough requests, xdv2pdf could be made optional by: - providing an extra switch for texexec
IRC this is already possible on a Mac, "texexec --xtx" use dvipdfmx and "texexec --xetex" use xdv2pdf to convert the DVI file to PDF.
- providing an alternative that doesn't use Latin Modern by filename (which means either not loading OpenType LM at all or assuming that it's installed)
I just didn't feel that it would be necessary to support that (didn't know the limitations of xdvipdfmx) when I was asking Hans to write patches. If there are requests to do it, it could probably be done.
Wolfgang