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Date:         Wed, 26 Jan 1994 14:36:00 GMT
From: Alan Jeffrey <alanje@cogs.sussex.ac.uk>
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Subject:      Re: Default fontencodings
Status: R

>At the LaTeX user interface level, aren't the T1 encoded dc fonts supposed to
>appear indistinguishable from the OT1 encoded cm fonts?

No, if you write in a language with composite letters, then the T1
fonts produce better hyphenation than the OT1 fonts.  So documents
produced with the T1 fonts may have different line/page breaks than
ones with the OT1 fonts.

At the moment, we can't make T1 the default encoding, since a) a lot
of sites don't have the T1 fonts, and b) you still need the OT1 fonts
for math mode.  With time, a) will become less of a problem, and
eventually b) will be sorted out by the 8-bit math font encodings.
Not much has happened about b) recently, but we've all been a bit
busy, I can't imagine why :-)

Alan.