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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&rsquo;s using before selecting a
-particular glyph.
-<p/>When TeX version 3 arrived, most of the excuses for the
-eccentricity of Knuth&rsquo;s encodings went away, and at TUG&rsquo;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 &lsquo;most&rsquo;
-European languages that use Latin alphabets, in the sense of including
-all accented letters needed. (Knuth&rsquo;s CMR fonts missed things
-necessary for Icelandic and Polish, for example, but the Cork
-fonts have them. Even Cork&rsquo;s coverage isn&rsquo;t complete: it misses
-letters from Romanian, Eastern and Northern Sami, and Welsh, at
-least. The Cork encoding does contain &ldquo;NG&rdquo; 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 &lsquo;stable&rsquo; (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 has acted as a disincentive to the production of Adobe
-Type 1 versions of the fonts, but several commercial suppliers offer
-EC or
-EC-equivalent fonts in type 1 or TrueType form &mdash; see
-
-<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&rsquo;t cover mathematics (and neither do
-&ldquo;T1-encoded&rdquo; font families, of course). If you&rsquo;re using
-Computer-Modern-alike fonts, this doesn&rsquo;t actually matter: your system
-will have the original Computer Modern fonts, which cover &lsquo;basic&rsquo;
-TeX mathematics; more advanced mathematics are likely to need
-separate fonts anyway. Suitable mathematics fonts for use with other
-font families are discussed in
-&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html">choice of scalable fonts</a>&rdquo;.
-<p/>The EC fonts are distributed with a
-set of &lsquo;Text Companion&rsquo; (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
-&lsquo;stable&rsquo; 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 the <i>txfonts</i> and
-<i>pxfonts</i> font packages
-
-(see <a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html">&ldquo;choice of scalable fonts&rdquo;</a>).
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>CM-super fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super.zip">fonts/ps-type1/cm-super</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/">browse</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>CM-LGC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc.zip">fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc/">browse</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>EC and TC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ec.zip">fonts/ec</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/ec.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/ec/">browse</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>Latin Modern fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/lm.zip">fonts/lm</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/lm.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/lm/">browse</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>