[pdftex] Degree Celsius

[Dok, D. van]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jörg Spanke [mailto:spanke at isas-dortmund.de]
> Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 13:38
> To: pdftex at tug.org
> Subject: [pdftex] Degree Celsius
> 
> 
> Hi,
> I'm quite a newbie to pdfLaTeX, but everything I need is working 
> quite nice for except one or two small things. I'm using  pdfTeX, 
> Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525 (MikTeX 2)
> with WinEdt on WinNT 4.0 or Win98 and I need to use the german 
> "Umlaute", greek letters and the degree "°". Because of this I am 
> using  \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc}
> for LaTeX compiling. But this will produce a PDF output with 
> pdfLaTeX which really looks ugly on the screen. When I use the 

With OT1 as the font encoding, the type1 versions of Computer Modern are
used. With T1, the sauter fonts are used which have refined placement for
accents and such. These are created frm metafont source and produce
bitmapped fonts instead of outline fonts.

If you need the T1 fontenc, you're better off using another font,
such as Times.

Dennis van Dok