Re: cm-super

Michail Vidiassov writes:
> On Sat, 15 May 2004, Thomas Esser wrote:

>>>  Why cm-super fonts package is not included?

>> It would almost double the size of the compressed texmf tarball.
>> And: the lm fonts are included. They are not autotraced and of a
>> better quality. They don't contain as many glyphs, but give them a
>> chance (\usepackage{lmodern}). Maybe, that's just what you need...

> Why not to treat it as some commercial font packs - leave out the
> pfb font files, but include the necessary support files, commented
> out entries in config files and directories with short files of
> installation instructions?

In my opinion this is a good compromise.

-- 
Olaf Weber

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