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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label ECfonts</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>What are the EC fonts?</h3>
-<p/>A font consists of a number of <em>glyphs</em>. In order that the
-glyphs may be printed, they are <a href="FAQ-whatenc.html"><em>encoded</em></a>, and
-the encoding is used as an index into tables within the font. For
-various reasons, Knuth chose deeply eccentric encodings for his
-Computer Modern family of fonts; in particular, he chose different
-encodings for different fonts, so that the application using the fonts
-has to remember which font of the family it&#8217;s using before selecting a
-particular glyph.
-<p/>When TeX version 3 arrived, most of the excuses for the
-eccentricity of Knuth&#8217;s encodings went away, and at TUG&#8217;s Cork
-meeting, an encoding for a set of 256 glyphs, for use in TeX text,
-was defined. The intention was that these glyphs should cover &#8216;most&#8217;
-European languages that use Latin alphabets, in the sense of including
-all accented letters needed. (Knuth&#8217;s CMR fonts missed things
-necessary for Icelandic and Polish, for example, but the Cork
-fonts have them. Even Cork&#8217;s coverage isn&#8217;t complete: it misses
-letters from Romanian, Eastern and Northern Sami, and Welsh, at
-least. The Cork encoding does contain &#8220;NG&#8221; glyphs that
-allows it to support Southern Sami.) LaTeX refers to the
-Cork encoding as T1, and
-provides the means to use fonts thus encoded to avoid problems with
-the interaction of accents and hyphenation
-(see <a href="FAQ-hyphenaccents.html">hyphenation of accented words</a>).
-<p/>The only Metafont-fonts that conform to the Cork encoding are the
-EC fonts. They look CM-like, though their metrics
-differ from CM-font metrics in several areas. The fonts are
-now regarded as &#8216;stable&#8217; (in the same sense that the CM fonts
-are stable: their metrics are unlikely ever to change). Their serious
-disadvantages for the casual user are their size (each EC font
-is roughly twice the size of the corresponding CM font), and
-there are far more of them than there are CM fonts. The simple
-number of fonts proved problematic in the production of Type 1
-versions of the fonts, but EC or EC-equivalent fonts in
-Type 1 or TrueType form (the latter only from
- <a href="FAQ-commercial.html">commercial suppliers</a>).
-
-Free <a href="FAQ-textrace.html">auto-traced versions</a> &#8212; the CM-super
-and the LGC fonts, and the Latin Modern series (rather
-directly generated from Metafont sources), are available.
-<p/>
-
-
-Note that the Cork encoding doesn&#8217;t cover mathematics (and neither do
-&#8220;T1-encoded&#8221; font families, of course). If you&#8217;re using
-Computer-Modern-alike fonts, this doesn&#8217;t actually matter: your system
-will have the original Computer Modern mathematical fonts (or the those
-distributed with the Latin Modern set), which cover &#8216;basic&#8217;
-TeX mathematics; more advanced mathematics are likely to need
-separate fonts anyway. Suitable mathematics fonts for use with other
-font families are discussed in
-&#8220;<a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html">choice of scalable fonts</a>&#8221;.
-<p/>The EC fonts are distributed with a
-set of &#8216;Text Companion&#8217; (TC) fonts that provide glyphs for
-symbols commonly used in text. The TC fonts are encoded
-according to the LaTeX TS1 encoding, and are not viewed as
-&#8216;stable&#8217; in the same way as are the EC fonts are.
-<p/>The Cork encoding is also implemented by virtual fonts provided in the
-<a href="FAQ-usepsfont.html">PSNFSS system</a>, for Adobe Type 1 fonts, and
-also by most other such fonts that have been developed (or otherwise
-made available) for use with (La)TeX.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>CM-super fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super.zip">fonts/ps-type1/cm-super</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/cm-super.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>CM-LGC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc.zip">fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/cm-lgc.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>EC and TC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ec.zip">fonts/ec</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ec/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/ec.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>Latin Modern fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/lm.zip">fonts/lm</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/lm/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/lm.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ECfonts">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=ECfonts</a>
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