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
- 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.

Mojca
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