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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ECfonts.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ECfonts.html deleted file mode 100644 index 265d607bfa7..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ECfonts.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,72 +0,0 @@ -<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’s using before selecting a -particular glyph. -<p/>When TeX version 3 arrived, most of the excuses for the -eccentricity of Knuth’s encodings went away, and at TUG’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 ‘most’ -European languages that use Latin alphabets, in the sense of including -all accented letters needed. (Knuth’s CMR fonts missed things -necessary for Icelandic and Polish, for example, but the Cork -fonts have them. Even Cork’s coverage isn’t complete: it misses -letters from Romanian, Eastern and Northern Sami, and Welsh, at -least. The Cork encoding does contain “NG” 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 ‘stable’ (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> — 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’t cover mathematics (and neither do -“T1-encoded” font families, of course). If you’re using -Computer-Modern-alike fonts, this doesn’t actually matter: your system -will have the original Computer Modern mathematical fonts (or the those -distributed with the Latin Modern set), which cover ‘basic’ -TeX mathematics; more advanced mathematics are likely to need -separate fonts anyway. Suitable mathematics fonts for use with other -font families are discussed in -“<a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html">choice of scalable fonts</a>”. -<p/>The EC fonts are distributed with a -set of ‘Text Companion’ (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 -‘stable’ 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> -</body> |