[log in to unmask]">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.
[log in to unmask]">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}
[log in to unmask]">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.
[log in to unmask]">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:-)
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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.
[log in to unmask]">Best,
Thanks for the comments,
David
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