Re: microtype for texinfo

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 04:43:04PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> 
> If you want any action to be taken, let me know. --thanks, karl.

I sent a mail to tldistro to get information on cm-super being installed
or not in other distros. Hopefully, this should help us know to what
extent having cm-super installed for minimal/default TeX/LaTeX installs
is likely.  I also checked a Red Hat 8 derivative distro and it looks
like cm-super will always be installed.

> P.S. I certainly understand not bothering to individually configure each
> \usepackage line as I mentioned in passing before, but I surmise it
> would be useful to have a way for users to say "replace the entire
> default preamble with this string".  Even including the \documentclass.
> 
> Since there are a zillion ways to do any particular job in LaTeX, seems
> useful to provide a general way to support "ok, if you want to choose
> all the packages yourself, you can".

This could be the best for the packages that are always loaded in the
generated LaTeX preamble, but many packages are only loaded if needed.
For example, for @cartouche, the mdframed LaTeX package is used, but
the \usepackage{mdframed} line is only output if there is a @cartouche
in the Texinfo document converted to LaTeX.

-- 
Pat