Re: Modular texlive and xelatex

[Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>]

Am Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 09:06:06PM +0200 schrieb Ricardo Wurmus:
> The tlpdb says that this file is provided by the xunicode package –
> which we don’t have yet.
> 
> [time passes]

Not much actually!

> We now have texlive-xunicode as of commit
> 793ce82c9d5ead8457da9cec8d1d8afc12704f10.

Thanks a lot! I used "guix import texlive floatflt" to add this package.
Congratulations for a nice importer! (Although I stumbled over needing to
add #:trivial? #t, which becomes obvious only when comparing with
neighbouring packages.)

The result for my file still is not quite like the monolithic texlive.
First, babel complains as follows:
Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were preloaded for
(babel)                the language `German (trad. orthography)' into the format.
(babel)                Please, configure your TeX system to add them and
(babel)                rebuild the format. Now I will use the patterns
(babel)                preloaded for \language=0 instead on input line 62.
I have installed texlive-generic-babel-german and texlive-hyphen-german;
have you got an idea what I am missing?

Second, the font (Linux Libertine O) looks ragged, and a "--" is typeset
as two dashes instead of an ndash. Suggestions are also welcome!

Andreas