Florent Rougon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Küster) wrote: > >> Ralf Stubner has suggested a different approach in de.comp.text.tex: We >> could add the corrected tfm files with names changed, and patch >> lmodern.sty to use these changed tfm files. plain TeX users would have >> to do it themselves, but they could do it. > > That's an interesting idea. I'm not sure if it is better than directly > modifying the original TFM files, however. Plain TeX users would have to > modify their documents to use the new TFM names and modify them again > when the font is fixed (or we would have to keep them for > backward-compatibility).
You are right, this is a drawback. We can still give lmodern.sty a new version number, even if it is in fact the tfm files that have changed, to ease debugging a little. > Moreover, the new documents would not compile > on non-Debian systems where the modified TFM files would not exist > (except maybe if they were distributed on CTAN...). This would only be the case if lmodern.sty was included in the document in a filecontents environment, wouldn't it? > Anyway, since the discussion seems to be active in de.c.t.t, I'll wait > one a few days in case better ideas come up from there (that doesn't > mean I read it! ;-). Upstream might even say a word about how and when > they will deal with the problem in the meantime... I'll keep you informed. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer
