Ludovic Courtès <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Salut, ;-)
Salut, > Do you have an idea of when this will happen? Nobody knows when the release will happen. We hope it will happen "soon", but I cannot promise anything about that. However, if you were talking about the new scheme for .cfg files, it is already implemented in packages for the soon-to-be-released teTeX 3 that Frank Küster uploaded to experimental recently (some of the packages may still be in the NEW queue). And there is an lmodern experimental package on http://people.via.ecp.fr/~flo/tmp/tetex-beta/lmodern/ that can be used with them, but be warned that it doesn't handle upgrades from other versions; it is only meant to validate the new scheme. > If the package can be made TeX-independent just by using scripting > tricks, then fine. I think so. > Well, still these are two megabytes or data only useful to TeX users. > As such, I would find it more intuitive to split the package into an > actual font package and a TeX font data package. > > One could argue that 2 MB is not big deal; however, it is quite > significant in the face of the Lout packages `lout' and `lout-common' (a > complete alternative to TeX/LaTeX) which weight less than 7 MB on > PowerPC. I don't really buy the argument of avoiding multiplying > packages, especially since that would be one more package while Debian > has thousands of them. Well, if you can convince an ftp-master, I may change my mind. But your last argument doesn't hold: currently, Debian has roughly 10000 packages. If every package would be suddenly split in two parts like this, we wouldn't get to (roughly) 10001 packages, but 20000, which would cause considerable problems with the current state of our tools. > You're right. However, my understanding was that only PFA files could > be embedded into PostScript files with, e.g. `includeres' (see [1] for > instance). I might be wrong though. IMHO, you should really make what is necessary to be able to use PFB files directly in lout. On-the-fly conversion is quite fast, and as such is probably an option. Also, you said that the 2 Mbytes of TFM files you don't need in lmodern are too much for you, but you didn't mention that adding the PFA versions of all shipped PFB files would take 4 additional Mbytes of your precious disk space. Yes, twice as much as "too much"! FYI, the average size of the PFB files shipped in lmodern is 73642 bytes, while the average size of the corresponding PFA files (obtained with t1ascii) is 143295 bytes. Twice as much, again. It is understandable that upstream doesn't ship them. :-p -- Florent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
