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 f0V2WD715336 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:32:14 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0V2X1729593 . for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:33:01 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 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 f0V2WD720659 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:32:13 +0100 (MET) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C08B2E.054C0B00" Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA07371 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:32:12 +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 mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0V2WBM13523 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:32:11 +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 <8.DA99242D@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 3:32:08 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 484943 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:32:08 +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 DAA10678 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:32:07 +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 DAA34058 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:32:07 +0100 Received: from dsmtp19.dion.ne.jp (dsmtp19.dion.ne.jp [210.172.64.87]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0V2W5p21335 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:32:06 +0100 (MET) Received: from yahoo.co.uk by dsmtp19.dion.ne.jp (8.9.3/3.7W-00081511) id LAA16841; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:31:57 +0900 (JST) References: <14965.53535.903052.219374@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Return-Path: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win95; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001010 X-Accept-Language: en Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: default font encoding Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 03:30:21 +0100 Message-ID: <3A7778BD.20509@yahoo.co.uk> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "James Kilfiger" 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: 3675 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08B2E.054C0B00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 I vote NO (as if LaTeX were a democracy!) For reasons already expressed by Sebastian and Donald. Putting it in babel would also cause problems. People (rightly) don't expect the formatting of their documents to change from upgrade to upgrade, or from computer to computer. I can see less reason not to put T1 as the default for 2e* But I'd expect that font and encoding setting for 2e* to be much better handled (with templates) than is the case with 2e. James Kilfiger, on the other side of the earth ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08B2E.054C0B00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: default font encoding

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

I vote NO (as if LaTeX were a democracy!) For reasons = already expressed
by Sebastian and Donald.  Putting it in babel = would also cause problems.
  People (rightly) don't expect the formatting = of their documents to
change from upgrade to upgrade, or from computer to = computer.

I can see less reason not to put T1 as the default for = 2e* But I'd
expect that font and encoding setting for 2e* to be = much better handled
(with templates) than is the case with 2e.

James Kilfiger, on the other side of the earth

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