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From: eijkhout@s41.csrd.uiuc.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
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Subject: Re: Where do I find info on new 8 bit font layout?
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Date: 22 Jun 91 22:05:17 GMT
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TeXhax@cs.washington.edu writes:

>My workmate who is the TeX maintainer at my office is revamping
>our font system; he wants it to be compatible with the new 8-bit
>layout for TeX3.  I don't know anything about this layout -- any
>pointers?  I presume there's a committee handling it?

There is no standard font layout, 7-bit or 8-bit or whatever.
There is a de facto standard set by computer modern for
the first 7 bits, and during the conference in Cork last year
some people got together and devised an extension/modification
for 8 bits. You can find this in Tugboat (where else? I mean,
how can you use TeX and not read Tugboat?) vol 11 nr 4, page 514--516.

Victor.