This is the complete set of files to generate a EC font oriented PLAIN.FMT The main file for plain format is EC-PLAIN. The main file for pdf plain format is EC-PDFPLAIN. The EC-PLFMT.BAT is MSDOS file (for 386 and emTeX) which I used to generate the EC-PLAIN format under emTeX. For the TeXLive distribution, the building commands are: -- initex ec-plain -- pdfinitex ec-pdfplain The code page converter I use (to avoid active characters >127) is 850DCTEX.TCP (to be transferred in BINARY). Its source to be compiled with maketcp is 850DCTEX.MTC (to be transferred in ASCII). Use maketcp version 1.1c or later with option -c to generate 850DCTEX.TCP With the TeXLive distribution, one should only change he [pdf]texing commands by adding the option "translate-file": tex.exe -translate-file=cp850-fr.tcx &ec-plain \input %1 %2 %3 %4 pdftex.exe -translate-file=cp850-fr.tcx &ec-pdfplain \input %1 %2 %3 %4 CAUTION ======= File names in this directory have been changed from the original (e.g. dcacceur.tex --> hyacceur.tex) in order to have no missing file when generating format. Thus you should put these files in a directory distinct from your usual TEXINPUT, unless you look at EC-PLFMT.BAT to rename them backwards. ec-plain.tex differs from plain.tex for: - font names (e.g. cmr10 -> ecrm1000) - cmmi* -> exmi* with 128 additional chars to have upright greek capitals - several mathchardefs - inclusion of hyacceur.tex+acmacros.sty+hyconfig.ptx instead of hyphen.tex - \magstep up to 9 Daniel TAUPIN taupin@lps.u-psud.fr