[tex-live] LY1

[Joachim Schrod]

cfrees at imapmail.org wrote:
> On Sat 14th Aug, 2010 at 23:01, Karl Berry seems to have written:
> 
>> As for SS, the general idea of the original TeX encodings was the exact
>> opposite of (and considerably predates) Unicode: encode glyphs, not
>> characters (because glyphs are what are in fonts, after all).  SS was
>> not needed as a separate glyph (and doesn't exist in Latin N, either).
>> SS did make it into T1 (and "extex.enc", I see), as you probably know.
> 
> I had some idea that for any encoding, TeX needing a mapping from upper
> case to lower case and vice-versa. So I thought that the inclusion of
> SS had to do with that

Yes, that *is* the case. SS was mainly put in to make \uppercase
and \lowercase work.

I was at the session in Cork where this was proposed and decided,
and can attest that fact.

	Joachim

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