Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!watmsg!gjditchfield From: gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) Subject: ISO Latin 1 and Computer Modern fonts Message-ID: <1990Sep27.155156.4352@watmath.waterloo.edu> Sender: daemon@watmath.waterloo.edu (Owner of Many System Processes) Organization: University of Waterloo References: Date: Thu, 27 Sep 90 15:51:56 GMT Lines: 27 In article fj@iesd.auc.dk (Frank Jensen) writes: > >I am looking for virtual font files for Knuth's Computer Modern fonts. > >They should have an ISO 8859/1 (Latin 1) layout, and they should >contain reasonable kerning data for character pairs where one or both >characters are accented (but since TeX doesn't kern between such >characters anyway, I can live without for the moment). > >[The advantage of having such virtual fonts is that it's easier to >type non-english text and that you can have correct hyphenation for >non-english languages (without resorting to incantations like >`german.sty' does).] In the long run, would it be a good idea to replace the Computer Modern fonts with fonts that have all of the ISO Latin 1 printing characters in the positions defined for them by Latin 1, and with the non-printing character positions filled up with useful glyphs like ligatures and characters from other ISO Latin character sets? If anyone out there has a keyboard that lets them type in the full Latin 1 character set, could they answer the following questions: how do you type in "no-break space" (octal 240) and "soft hyphen" (octal 255), and what appears on your screen if you do? Glen Ditchfield gjditchfield@violet.uwaterloo.ca Office: DC 2517 Dept. of Computer Science, U of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1 These opinions have not been tested on animals.