[OS X TeX] Documents less legible with T1 font encoding
Axel E. Retif
axretif at igo.com.mx
Fri Aug 5 04:48:23 CEST 2005
On Aug 4, 2005, at 6:18 PM, Nestor Aguilera wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 4 Aug 2005, at 18:58, Axel E. Retif wrote:
>
>> This is exactly what I use, because Bruno Voisin and Piet van
>> Oostrum showed
>> me that with OT1 I get the following hyphenation with the word
>> murciélago
>> (yes, my mother language is Spanish as well) as an example: mur-
>> ciéla-go;
>> with T1, on the other hand, I get mur-cié-la-go. That is to say,
>> with OT1 I
>> don't get an otherwise correct hyphenation where an accent occurs.
>
> Yes, you are right. However, I still like the CM output best. With
> Latin Modern you'll see that the bottom left part of the accent in
> "í" is to the left of the "column" (I like it more on top of it),
> and in "ú" it is on top of the left "column" (and I like it more in
> the middle, between the two "columns"). Also compare the output of
> the CM-super: the accents are better located (to me) but they are
> smaller and therefore harder to read, especially when printed. Also
> notice that the hyphenation, although correct with T1, may give
> different results with CM-super and Latin Modern (guess this is
> because of their design).
Indeed. I did use Latin Modern for a while, but now I prefer CM-super.
Best
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