gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) (09/27/90)
In article <FJ.90Sep25153811@indigo.iesd.auc.dk> 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.
dhosek@frigga.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) (09/28/90)
In article <1990Sep27.155156.4352@watmath.waterloo.edu>, gjditchfield@watmsg.uwaterloo.ca (Glen Ditchfield) writes... >In article <FJ.90Sep25153811@indigo.iesd.auc.dk> 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