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 f0U8Fu711317 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:56 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0U8Gg726042 . for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:16:42 +0100 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 f0U8FtM18400 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:55 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C08A94.DE8DC600" 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 JAA04716 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:55 +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 f0U8Fs721903 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:54 +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 <6.B4A3F844@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 9:15:52 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 485072 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:52 +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 JAA16833 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:51 +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 JAA39048 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:50 +0100 Received: from nef.ens.fr (nef.ens.fr [129.199.96.32]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0U8FoY27852 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:50 +0100 (MET) Received: from clipper.ens.fr (clipper-gw.ens.fr [129.199.1.22]) by nef.ens.fr (8.10.1/1.01.28121999) with ESMTP id f0U8Fn594231 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:49 +0100 (CET) Received: from (ebrunet@localhost) by clipper.ens.fr (8.9.2/jb-1.1) In-Reply-To: <003401c08a94$512bed00$78e2fea9@servus>; from ud@art-satz.de on Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 09:11:57AM +0100 References: <14965.53535.903052.219374@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <003401c08a94$512bed00$78e2fea9@servus> Return-Path: User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: default font encoding Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2001 09:15:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20010130091549.A21414@clipper.ens.fr> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Eric Brunet" 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: 3667 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08A94.DE8DC600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:22:55PM +0100, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > i nevertheless begin to wonder if we should change the default font > encoding > from OT1 to T1 so that more people get proper hyphenation without the > need to > say > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > > in their documents and would be interested to hear what the opinion on > this > list would be (not that i consider this list a representative sample = of > the > average LaTeX user). Maybe another way to do it is to put it in babel. English writers don't really need T1 fonts, and don't need a change in latex2e right now. But any language in babel could have a default inputenc and fontenc, such that setting \usepackage[francais]{babel} or (german, or any west europe language) would automatically set the T1 fontenc and the latin1 inputenc. Setting \usepackage[russian]{babel} would select a different and suitable (inputenc,fontenc) tupple. -- =C9ric Brunet ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08A94.DE8DC600 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: default font encoding

On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:22:55PM +0100, Frank = Mittelbach wrote:
> i nevertheless begin to wonder if we should = change the default font
> encoding
> from OT1 to T1 so that more people get proper = hyphenation without the
> need to
> say
>
>   \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>
> in their documents and would be interested to = hear what the opinion on
> this
> list would be (not that i consider this list a = representative sample of
> the
> average LaTeX user).

Maybe another way to do it is to put it in babel. = English writers don't
really need T1 fonts, and don't need a change in = latex2e right now. But
any language in babel could have a default inputenc = and fontenc, such
that setting

        = \usepackage[francais]{babel}

or (german, or any west europe language) would = automatically set the T1
fontenc and the latin1 inputenc. Setting

        = \usepackage[russian]{babel}

would select a different and suitable = (inputenc,fontenc) tupple.

--
        =C9ric = Brunet

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