Re: Lucida Fonts in teTeX

Dear all

I don't mean to be in any way critical of anybody's efforts with 
maintaining TeX, teTeX or any of the supporting packages.  I'm terribly 
sorry if the tone of my previous emails suggested that I was.  Goodness 
knows, this software is the backbone of my professional document 
creation activity and I am (and thousands of others are) very grateful 
for all of the effort that is given freely!

However, I'm trying to get to the bottom of a problem that is currently 
mystifying me and, I suspect, some other users too.  I believe that I 
have correctly installed the Y&Y Lucida Bright fonts that I have owned 
for several years.  With a simple LaTeX file like this:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{lucidabr}
\begin{document}
Hello, world!
\end{document}

I get only Computer Modern fonts in the output but nothing obvious 
on-screen to tell me that there is a problem.  If I insert a line 
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} then it works: I get Lucida Bright fonts in 
the output.  What is mystifying me is this: is it now necessary to 
always use the two packages, lucidabr & fontenc, together in order to 
get Lucida Bright fonts in the output?  Or is there something else I 
should do in order not to have to use the fontenc  package (my guess 
was that Y&Y had re-encoded the fonts since I bought them, and 
upgrading the fonts would solve the problem, but it seems this is not 
the case)?

I'm also a little confused as to whether it is appropriate to continue 
to discuss this problem in this forum, or whether I should now take 
this up privately with Mr. Schmidt.  In defence of continuing to 
discuss it here, my *perception* was that it was a problem with teTeX, 
since it was 'only' the upgrade of teTeX that caused this apparent 
incompatibility with previous versions.  Other upgrading users might 
have a similar perception and scan the teTeX mailing-list archive first 
for answers.  But I will take advice!  :-)

Cheers
- Vaughan