[tex-live] heresy

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Karl Berry wrote:

>    or shall I not have "cm" at all, and just have "lmodern"?
>
>You still have to have cm, or basically no existing documents will be
>processable.  LM is not a drop-in replacement for CM.  It doesn't
>have a cmr10.tfm, for instance, and anyway the metrics are slightly
>different (and better).
>  
>
People would have to use the LM fonts explicitly. I agree, it'd be a 
pain not to be able to run
"pdflatex sample2e" as is.

>    Realistically, are .afm files ever used these days by normal users?
>    I mean the .afm files for cm, lmodern etc
>
>I can't imagine why.  I don't ever use them, at least.
>  
>
trouble is, splitting eg "lm" into the daily use part and the "source" 
part (ie afm) makes
package management and the relationship with the upstream source 
problematic. I suppose
I can assume Knuth doesn't care how I package CM

sebastian