Re: Lucida Fonts in teTeX

Reinhard Kotucha <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "David" == David Kastrup <[email protected]> writes:

    >> Yes, ask Walter to make T1 encoding the default in
    >> lucidabr.sty.

    > The problem is that

    > a) it is not the business of font providing packages to play
    > around with document defaults 

Maybe.  But it is probably wrong to set the font encoding globally.
It would be much better to set the fontenc for each particular font.

So sth. like \usepackage[LY1]{lucidabr} would be appropriate.  And if
an argument is optional, there must be a default value.  And that
should be T1.

BTW., ae.sty already switches to T1.

    > b) LaTeX defaults to OT1 encoding.
    > And for Americans, this is pretty much sufficient, and also
    > tends to leads to visually more appealing fonts (not too rarely,
    > even avoiding bitmap fonts) where the Computer Modern family is
    > concerned.

This is only a problem with Computer Modern and EC, but in almost all
other cases Americans can use T1 instaed of OT1 as well.

    > Sometimes you just have to bite the bullet and do something
    > suboptimal for keeping your peace.

Seems that we need LaTeX3 now and that its developers should forget
everything about compatibilty.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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