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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label t1enc</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>Why use <i>fontenc</i> rather than <i>t1enc</i>?</h3>
+<p/>In the very earliest days of LaTeX2e, the only way to use the
+T1 encoding was <i>t1enc</i>; with the summer 1994
+&ldquo;production&rdquo; release, the <i>fontenc</i> package appeared, and
+provided comprehensive support for use of the encoding.
+<p/>Nevertheless, the <i>t1enc</i> package remains (as part of the
+LaTeX 2.09 compatibility code), but it does very little: it merely
+selects font encoding T1, and leaves to the user the business
+of generating the character codes required.
+<p/>Generating such character codes could be a simple matter, <em>if</em>
+the T1 encoding matched any widely-supported encoding standard,
+since in that case, one might expect one&rsquo;s keyboard to generate the
+character codes. However, the T1 encoding is a mix of several
+standard encodings, and includes code points in areas of the table
+which standard encodings specifically exclude, so no T1
+keyboards have been (or ever will be) manufactured.
+<p/>By contrast, the <i>fontenc</i> package generates the T1
+code points from ordinary LaTeX commands (e.g., it generates the
+<code>&eacute;</code> character codepoint from the command <code>\&rsquo;</code><code>e</code>). So, unless you
+have program-generated T1 input, use
+<code>\</code><code>usepackage[T1]{fontenc}</code> rather than
+<code>\</code><code>usepackage{t1enc}</code>.
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=t1enc">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=t1enc</a>
+</body>