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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ECfonts.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ECfonts.html index 8e4173d82d8..17985361f8d 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ECfonts.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-ECfonts.html @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ <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 +<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 @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ 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 +<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’ @@ -23,11 +23,9 @@ 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 - +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 +<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 @@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ EC-equivalent fonts in type 1 or TrueType form — see <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> +<p/> Note that the Cork encoding doesn’t cover mathematics (and neither do @@ -55,15 +53,14 @@ 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 +<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 PostScript fonts, and also by the <i>txfonts</i> and +<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">“choice of scalable fonts”</a>). @@ -73,5 +70,5 @@ for PostScript fonts, and also by the <i>txfonts</i> and <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> +<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> |