[tex-live] Bug#768558: texlive-lang-cyrillic: lmodern font declarations missing

Vladimir Lomov lomov.vl at gmail.com
Mon Nov 10 09:30:25 CET 2014


Hello,
** Karl Berry [2014-11-08 23:49:44 +0000]:

> Norbert and all,

> It seems I added the t2alm*.fd files in 2012, sent to me by Vladimir
> Lomov (cc'd) as part of an update to the Russian translation of the TL
> guide.
> http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-ru/t2almr.fd?view=log&pathrev=29712
> (I unfortunately misspelled his name in my commit msg.  Sorry Vladimir!)

I saw Norbert message and took a look on these files, at first I was
surprized that they belongs to cyrillic bundle, but after your message
Karl I remembered that I created them and the reason why I created these
files.

> I do not know for a fact where they came from, but I speculate that
> Vladimir created them by copying and modifying the t2acm*.fd files that
> are part of the standard latex cyrillic bundle.  Vladimir?

Yes, exactly, I took a file from Cyrillic bundle and made the files in
question based on it. But I prepared them only to build documentation
(pdf) and not to distribute or use them separately, that why I didn't
even bother to remove the commented header.

AFAIR, there was a problem with building PDF version of Russian
documentation and to resolve it quickly I proposed this "dirty" and fast
solution.

> (Unfortunately the t2alm* files incorrectly say they are part of cyrillic
> which, so far as I can see, is not correct.  That should be fixed.)

They are useless, Latin Modern fonts, as name suggested, don't have
Cyrillic letters, these files were used in past to generate PDF
documentation.

> Anyway, I am not sure what the best outcome would be.  The LM fonts
> don't actually include Cyrillic, so far as I know (*Latin* Modern, after
> all).  The t2alm*.fd files use the same lh fonts (larm, etc.) that the
> t2acm*.fd files do.

Just delete them and put new 'texlive-ru.tex' and 'tex-live-ru.sty' into
directory 'texlive-ru', they don't require these FD files to build PDF
and HTML version of documentation. I tested both files locally and they
do the job.

Legal status of 'tex-live-ru.sty': the file is based on 'tex-live.sty',
actually I just removed offending line --- '\usepackage{lmodern}' --- in
rest they are identical. I used to think that it is easier to make
several FD files than to copy a whole 'tex-live.sty' and remove just one
line. So now we have proper way to build PDF version of Russian
documentation.

> Best,
> Karl

---
WBR, Vladimir Lomov

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