Re: microtype for texinfo

[Patrice Dumas]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 08:23:11AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> - make cm-super (the full set) a "recommends" of
>   texlive-fonts-recommended
>   This will install it automatically unless the user explicitly disables
>   installation of recommended packages.

I can't say for other users, but it seemed to me that the PDF output
from LaTeX was subpar when reading on screen because the font looked
strange, and it turns out that it was because I had not installed
cm-super.  I cannot weight that against the additional disk space (but
also bandwidth, install time...) of adding it.

> - make cm-super a dependency of texinfo (next version, in Debian)
>   that way the package will be pulled in in any case

I think that it would be a good thing to do.

-- 
Pat