On the main site there are two tags: minion and minionpro. Both tags seem to cover identical material. Should they be synonyms or did I miss some details?
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In my opinion they should not be synonyms but the minion tag should be removed and questions retagged to minionpro or fontspec.
UPDATE: I have retagged all questions in minion and myriad (which I stumbled upon) and pinged the moderators to remove the tags.
It doesn't make sense to have tags for different font faces because there are infinitely many. At the same time we do not have a palatino tag even though this is one of the most popular non-standard fonts for LaTeX documents (used, e.g., in classicthesis and the memoir docs). Usually font questions revolve around how to use them in LaTeX which is font independent in the case of OpenType fonts and package dependent for Type1 fonts for which there are package tags (e.g. times, eulervm, etc.).
However, I do not want to generalize the statement about font tags to computer-modern and latin-modern. These still deserve special treatment as they are the standard fonts which most users are confronted with on a daily basis. Therefore I consider them to belong to the circle of TeX and friends.
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Nice answer. I totally agree. Who can vote for tag deletion? Commented Aug 14, 2017 at 11:47
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@TeXnician ... mm I should have omitted calling you out...but this question is not about
palatino, nor it's abouttimes, much less aboutcomputer-modernorlatin-modernfonts. I guess I don't make sense so let's retag every thing... So my dear Henri, what exactly is your proposal withmyriadthen?– doedCommented Aug 19, 2017 at 10:53 -
1@doed I laid out why tags for specific fonts (other than the standard fonts) do not make sense. That is why I retagged everything in {minion} to either {minionpro} (if the question is about pdfLaTeX, which uses these support files) or {fontspec} (if the question uses the OpenType fonts). For {myriad} a tag {myriadpro} does not exist, so I just removed it from all. Commented Aug 19, 2017 at 11:04
minionprois a packge, and Minion is a font. But in the context of the site it seems most likely that they should be treated as synonyms (with minionpro being the main tag I should think.)minionproas the main tag.minionprodoes is add math support and allows the font to be used with pdfTeX. But having a tag for a particular font seems unusual, which is why they are probably reasonable synonyms.