On 17/10/2020 18:16, LARONDE Thierry wrote: > Hello, > > FWIW, one can not dump LaTeX on a virgin system (say D. E. Knuth > engines and fonts) if the following 4 tfm files are missing: > > line10.tfm > linew10.tfm > lcircle10.tfm > lcirclew10.tfm True but that's always been the case, since at least latex 2.09 in the 1980s. They are latex picture mode fonts developed alongside the original latex macros. > > For required/graphics, the driver dvips.def is not anymore generated > by graphics-drivers.ins: it has to be get from contrib/graphics-def. > (Not a problem for me, I know where to find it; but it could be > mentioned in the doc.) no currently maintained drivers are generated by the graphics package ins file, I should probably make the graphics-drivers.ins file a no-op, keeping the dtx for documentation on driver structure. Hard to believe that anyone is downloading a new distribution and using emtex.def for example. I agree the first section of drivers.dtx probably should say something. and give a pointer to the graphics-def collection, however this is documented, the main documentation for graphics is grfguide.tex which says The following driver options are declared in the packages. The matching definition files (\emph{driver}|.def|) are now also maintained by the \LaTeX\ project, but distributed separately, in the CTAN |graphics-def| collection. \begin{quote}\raggedright |dvipdfmx|, |dvips|, |dvisvgm|, |luatex|, |pdftex|, |xetex| \end{quote} > > Neither ltxcheck nor sample2e.tex can be processed if the EC fonts are > missing (required?). T1/TS1 encoded computer modern has always been required for latex2e, although the actual change affecting sample2e is this (in texlive 2019) \DeclareTextSymbolDefault{\textdollar}{TS1} \UndeclareTextCommand{\textdollar} {OT1} % don't use the OT1 def any longer so that $ is available in all styles without contortions to avoid turning into £ in italic which means that the text symbol font gets used in this example document. > On a side note (since core babel is required): could you tell the babel > developers Javier is on this list I think , so you contacted him already:-) > to correct babel.ins in order to not provoke an unnecessary > overwrite check by docstrip, because "babel.log" is also used as the > output name of a file created as a side effect. Namely, in: > > % Dummy, it just read "modules" to be used when generating > % the actual file. There must be a better way. > \savingtrue > \generate{\usepreamble\empty > \usepostamble\empty > \file{babel.log}{\from{babel.dtx}{dummy}}} > \savingfalse > > replace babel.log by dummy.log, for example (this is what I do by ed'ing > or sed'ing the file; but the less custom processing, the better ;) If you use the supplied l3build script and unpack with `l3build install` this isn't actually a problem but it does seem a bit odd, perhaps leave an issue at https://github.com/latex3/babel/issues so it doesn't get forgotten. > > Best, Thanks for the comments, David Disclaimer The Numerical Algorithms Group Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales with company number 1249803. The registered office is: Wilkinson House, Jordan Hill Road, Oxford OX2 8DR, United Kingdom. This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses and malware, and may have been automatically archived by Mimecast Ltd, an innovator in Software as a Service (SaaS) for business.