Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!jarthur!frigga.claremont.edu From: dhosek@frigga.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: ISO Latin 1 and Computer Modern fonts Message-ID: <8691@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 27 Sep 90 17:18:28 GMT References: Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Reply-To: dhosek@frigga.claremont.edu Organization: Quixote Lines: 29 In article <1990Sep27.155156.4352@watmath.waterloo.edu>, gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) writes... >In article fj@iesd.auc.dk (Frank Jensen) writes: >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? There is a draft 256-character character set that came out of the TeX90 conference at Cork. It is inadequate since it doesn't leave anywhere near enough empty glyphs for quality typesetting (the f-ligs of cm are not the full set of possible roman ligatures and variants, especially for italic typefaces or oldstyle typefaces). > 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? On the VT340 that I'm typing on right now, NBSP appears as a space ( ) and SHY as a hyphen (-). They're typed as compose-space-space and compose-hyphen-hyphen respectively. --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont support, consulting dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu installation and production work. dhosek@ymir.bitnet Free Estimates. uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147 finger dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu for more info