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 f18CelH30340 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:47 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f18Cekd13261 . for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:46 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C091CC.5C0BB180" 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 f18Cek701024 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:46 +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 NAA29483 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:45 +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 f18Cei701018 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:45 +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 <5.2F781910@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:38 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 488186 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:41 +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 NAA17873 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:40 +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 NAA35890 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:40 +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 f18Cedu26798 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:39 +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 NAA462983 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:39 +0100 (CET) Received: (from gaulle@localhost) by mira.idris.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA20936; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:37 +0100 Return-Path: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: default inputenc/fontenc tight to language Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 13:40:37 +0100 Message-ID: <14978.37829.161859.757014@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: 3750 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C091CC.5C0BB180 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable David Carlisle writes: > I still use OT1 for French and will continue until new fonts > appear in public domain with the same quality as CM fonts for > the 128-255 range. > > --bg > > > With mltex presumably? Using standard TeX isn't this exactly = equivalent ... Since Web2c is a standard, the --mltex option is standard too. Yes mltex is quite appropriate for a default format for French as well as for all european languages and produced glyphs a far better... > to using a VF based re-encoding of the cm fonts such as ae fonts? i don't speak about any virtual font which use T1 encoding, obviously. --bg ------_=_NextPart_001_01C091CC.5C0BB180 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: default inputenc/fontenc tight to language

David Carlisle writes:
 >    I still use OT1 for = French and will continue until new fonts
 >    appear in public domain = with the same quality as CM fonts for
 >    the 128-255 = range.
 >
 >      --bg
 >
 >
 > With mltex presumably? Using standard TeX = isn't this exactly equivalent
...

 Since Web2c is a standard, the --mltex option is = standard too. Yes
mltex is quite appropriate for a default format for = French as well as
for all european languages and produced glyphs a far = better...

 > to using a VF based re-encoding of the cm = fonts such as ae fonts?

i don't speak about any virtual font which use T1 = encoding, obviously.

  --bg

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