Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Am 25.12.2008 um 16:49 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
I'm still curious: what's the difference between cm-super and cm-unicode (apart from size and different format)?
cm-super: type1 cm-unicode: opentype
Their main purpose is to create free good quality fonts for use in X applications supporting many languages. (cm unicode [1])
One thing that I would like to see preserved within minimals is "full compatibility" in the sense that what works in minimals should also work on TeX Live and MikTeX. Maybe not today because TeX Live is outdated and MikTeX dropped support for ConTeXt for some unpredictable amount of time, but a year later or if someone updates ConTeXt in TeX Live.)
In the old ConTeXt distribution there were lots of files that were not present anywhere else, so what worked in the ConTeXt distribution did not work in TeX Live or Minimals which is a pity. Such incompatibilities should be solved in other ways.
So I would prefer to add packages that are on CTAN (or are planned to go there) and have some potential to become part of MikTeX and TeX Live. Is anyone working on cm-unicode being added to CTAN (preferrably in TDS-compliant way)? Does that make sense?
I can make a package and put it on CTAN but the question is, do you want them in the minimals, do we need type1 files and if yes for which encodings, only t2a or more.
the problem with cmsuper is that as soon as we start adding that the minimals get bloated; for that reason some time ago we had only a small subset ... only 10 pt sized for cmsuper and cbgreek (and then one should use the generic 10 pt design size typescript instead of the cm scaled ones); after all, the traces are suboptimal anyway however, the best would be - to add cyrillic to lm and all gyre fonts - but for that to happen we need to have the proper shapes now, for gyre there is some support but its suboptimal (as it seems hard to get cytillic users organized to support this development and do the needed QA) for lm i can imagine that we try to 'launch' a project that makes it happen but this can only be done if there is some real input from the cyrillic user community so, the bottom line is: if you want cyrillic in these fonts, then get organized and it might happen Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------