Re: microtype for texinfo

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 04:43:04PM -0600, Karl Berry wrote:
> Patrice, Gavin - I've been talking with my friend Norbert Preining, who
> used to be the Debian maintainer of the texlive packages. (He's also one
> of the principal maintainers, with me and a couple others, of upstream
> TeX Live.)
> 
> He confirms that cm-super is not installed as part of the "recommended"
> TeX packages. It's 60+mb and that just seemed too big. It's been that
> way since 2005 or so and no one has complained. Which surprises me, but
> I guess relatively few people use TeX, and relatively few of those would
> be cognizant of bitmap vs. outline fonts, and those who are, just
> install what's needed.
> 
> cm-super-minimal includes only the 10pt ("1000") fonts. That's
> something, but not enough for any nontrivial LaTeX document. 
> 
> He's willing in principle to suggest that cm-super[-minimal] become part
> of the recommended TeX packages, but I'm not sure that is warranted.

Is it the same story with lmodern which is another frequently recommended
font package?