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Re: Behaviour of \latinfamily
- To: rebecca@astrid.u-net.com
- Subject: Re: Behaviour of \latinfamily
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 May 1998 09:56:08 +0100
- Cc: vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de, fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- In-Reply-To: <l03130306b19248922e17@[194.119.133.49]>
- References: <199805261412.QAA19115@attila.uni-duesseldorf.de> <l03130306b19248922e17@[194.119.133.49]>
Rebecca and Rowland writes:
> One question: this command \raw_encoding. It appears to be set to 8r, but
> the raw encoding of the average `foreign' fount you install for use with
> (La)TeX is 8a. 8r is called the TeXBase1 encoding. Can anyone explain the
> discrepancy?
>
there is the base (default) encoding, 8a, which Adobe use. and there
is the T1 encoding which we (TeX) use. but there are *two* steps in
between. T1 and OT1 are built by references to a `raw' font, but this
cannot be 8a, because that doesn't include all the characters we need. so
we use 8r, which we get by transforming 8a to 8r
sebastian