Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f0U0tA710390 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:10 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0U0tu724953 . for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:56 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C08A57.4B826B00" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0U0t9708021 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.57]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA28500 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:08 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0U0t8708017 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:08 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <4.215CB72A@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 1:55:05 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 484914 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:05 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA15257 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:04 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA16038 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:04 +0100 Received: from trmail.triumf.ca (trmail.Triumf.CA [142.90.100.150]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0U0t3Y05925 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:03 +0100 (MET) Received: from erich.triumf.ca (erich.Triumf.CA [142.90.100.1]) by trmail.triumf.ca (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f0U0t2L04623 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:55:02 -0800 Received: by erich.triumf.ca for LATEX-L@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:55:02 -0800 Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: default font encoding Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 01:55:02 +0100 Message-ID: <010129165502.2020b065@erich.triumf.ca> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Donald Arseneau" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3664 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08A57.4B826B00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >wonder if we should change the default font encoding from OT1 to T1 NO. Only at the next major upheaval of LaTeX. And only with freely available type-1 (Compter modernish) fonts with the T1 character set. This change would create much more disruption than several minor changes that have been rejected in the past, including a disruption of installations, as opposed to just improved formatting. Even for the cases where the change works as intended -- better hyphenation -- it will change the formatting of documents. I personally prefer the best formatting at any stage, but you have been holding the line strenuously against such changes. Donald Arseneau asnd@triumf.ca ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08A57.4B826B00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: default font encoding

>wonder if we should change the default font = encoding from OT1 to T1

NO.  Only at the next major upheaval of = LaTeX.  And only with freely
available type-1 (Compter modernish) fonts with the = T1 character set.

This change would create much more disruption than = several minor
changes that have been rejected in the past, = including a disruption
of installations, as opposed to just improved = formatting.

Even for the cases where the change works as intended = -- better
hyphenation -- it will change the formatting of = documents.  I
personally prefer the best formatting at any stage, = but you have
been holding the line strenuously against such = changes.

Donald = Arseneau           = ;            =   asnd@triumf.ca

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