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 f0U7nE711205 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:49:14 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0U7nv725960 . for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:50:00 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C08A91.23AFF900" Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0U7n9M16670 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:49:09 +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 IAA00005 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:49:09 +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 f0U7n8720215 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:49:09 +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 <15.F55A02AF@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 8:49:02 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 485024 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:49:01 +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 IAA16439 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:48:59 +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 IAA16080 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:49:01 +0100 Received: from lumiere.idris.fr (lumiere.idris.fr [130.84.8.14]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0U7n0Y18652 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:49:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from mira.idris.fr (gaulle@mira.idris.fr [130.84.12.100]) by lumiere.idris.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA13762 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:48:59 +0100 (CET) Received: (from gaulle@localhost) by mira.idris.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA40360; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:48:58 +0100 Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: default font encoding Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 08:48:57 +0100 Message-ID: <14966.29161.439035.699993@mira.idris.fr> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Bernard GAULLE (CNRS/IDRIS - France) " 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: 3665 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08A91.23AFF900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable >i nevertheless begin to wonder if we should change the default font = encoding >from OT1 to T1 Against! The pb is not that one. I mean that people don't wish not to type in the font encoding they want (eg someone else said to them... because that font encoding has absolutely no meaning for them) but wish to be able to type in the fonts they want to use (and hope LaTeX would be able to know the font encoding to apply). Chosing default T1 is a switch to a default font set which is unappropriate (unuseful, less beautiful, non TeX default, non free Postscript or True Type, ...) for a great part of the world. --bg ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08A91.23AFF900 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable default font encoding

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

Against!
The pb is not that one. I mean that people don't wish = not to type in
the font encoding they want (eg someone else said to = them... because
that font encoding has absolutely no meaning for = them) but wish to be
able to type in the fonts they want to use (and hope = LaTeX would be
able to know the font encoding to apply).

  Chosing default T1 is a switch to a default = font set which is
unappropriate (unuseful, less beautiful, non TeX = default, non free
Postscript or True Type, ...) for a great part of the = world.

  --bg

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