Re: [O] ox-latex: default packages cleaning

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-07-07, at 16:53, Rasmus <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,

Hi,

and sorry for my delay – I have a huge email backlog...

> We could do some cleaning of org-default-package-alist before Org 8.3.

Yes, yes, yes!

> * tolerance
>
> Why is "\\tolerance=1000" part of org-default-package-alist?  Is this
> value good for all languages?  If we keep it, it should be configurable.
> But people who explicitly wants this behavior can probably add it
> themselves.
>
> If it's a means to archive "high-quality" paragraphs, maybe microtype is
> probably the 'proper' fix...

My suggestion: forget about \tolerance.  It’s low-level TeX stuff,
hardly anybody knows what it does, really (it is one of the dozen or two
parameters governing the line-breaking algorithm), and most people would
not see any difference anyway.  I wouldn’t add microtype, OTOH.  One
reason: it issues a lot of warnings when you use a font it does not
know.  It doesn’t hurt, but some people don’t like warnings.  Also, some
people might not really /want/ microtype – it messes around with font
widths, and even with the default settings (which are rather
conservative), it can look a bit strange.

> * Fixltx2e
>
> This packages is depreciated with TL2015 cf. LaTeX News 22.  We can use
> \RequirePackage[current]{latexrelease} but there's no point in that....
> AFAIK latexrelease only useful for backwards compatibility.

Didn’t even know that.

> * marvosym¹ 
> * Wasysym² 

My opinion: remove both.

> Rasmus

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University