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+====== What are the EC fonts? ======
-section: Bits and pieces of (La)TeX
-permalink: /FAQ-ECfonts
-date: 2014-06-10
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-# What are the EC fonts?
-A font provides a number of _glyphs_. In order that the glyphs
+A font provides a number of //glyphs//. In order that the glyphs
-may be printed, they are [_encoded_](FAQ-whatenc.md), and the
+may be printed, they are //[[2_programmation:encodage:notion_d_encodage|encoded]]//,
-encoding is used as an index into tables within the font.  For various
+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
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 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''
+was defined.  The intention was that these glyphs should cover "most"
 European languages that use Latin alphabets, in the sense of including
 all accented letters needed.  (Knuth's CMR fonts missed things
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 means to use fonts thus encoded to avoid problems with the interaction
 of accents and hyphenation
-(see [hyphenation of accented words](FAQ-hyphenaccents.md)).
+(see [[3_composition:langues:cesure:coupures_de_mots_accentues|hyphenation of accented words]]).
 The first MetaFont-fonts to conform to the Cork encoding were the EC
 fonts. They look CM-like, though their metrics differ from CM-font
-metrics in several areas.  They have long been regarded as ''stable'' (in
+metrics in several areas.  They have long been regarded as "stable" (in
 the same sense that the CM fonts are stable: their metrics are
 unlikely ever to change).  Each EC font is, of course, 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 proved problematic in
-the production of Type&nbsp;1 versions of the fonts, but EC or
+the production of Type 1 versions of the fonts, but EC or
-EC-equivalent fonts in Type&nbsp;1 or TrueType form (the latter only from
+EC-equivalent fonts in Type 1 or TrueType form (the latter only from
-  [commercial suppliers](FAQ-commercial.md)).
+[[6_distributions:implementations_commerciales|commercial suppliers]]).
-Free [auto-traced versions](FAQ-textrace.md)&nbsp;&mdash; the CM-super and
+Free [[5_fichiers:fontes:tracer_les_contours_d_une_police_metafont|auto-traced versions]]
-the LGC fonts, and the Latin Modern series (rather directly generated
+--- the CM-super and the LGC fonts, and the Latin Modern series (rather directly
-from Metafont sources), are available.
+generated from Metafont sources), are available.
 Note that the Cork encoding doesn't cover mathematics (so that no
-''T1-encoded'' font families can not support it).  If you're using
+"T1-encoded" font families can not support it).  If you're using
 Computer-Modern-alike fonts, this doesn't actually matter: your system
 will have the original Computer Modern mathematical fonts (or the
-those distributed with the Latin Modern set), which cover ''basic'' TeX
+those distributed with the Latin Modern set), which cover "basic" TeX
 mathematics; more advanced mathematics are likely to need separate
 fonts anyway.  Suitable mathematics fonts for use with other font
 families are discussed in
-''[choice of scalable fonts](FAQ-psfchoice.md)''.
+"[[5_fichiers:fontes:fontes_t1_pour_les_mathematiques|choice of scalable fonts]]".
-The EC fonts are distributed with a set of ''Text Companion'' (TC) fonts
+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
-necessarily as ''stable'' are the EC fonts are.  Note that modern
+necessarily as "stable" are the EC fonts are.  Note that modern
 distributions tend not to distribute the EC fonts in outline format, but
 rather to provide Latin Modern for T1-encoded Computer Modern-style
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 Note that T1 (and other eight-bit font encodings) are superseded in
-the developing TeX-family members [XeTeX](FAQ-xetex.md) and
+the developing TeX-family members [[1_generalites:glossaire:qu_est_ce_que_xetex|XeTeX]] and
-[LuaTeX](FAQ-luatex.md), which use Unicode as their base encoding,
+[[1_generalites:glossaire:qu_est_ce_que_luatex|LuaTeX]], which use Unicode as their base encoding,
-and use Unicode-encoded fonts (typically in `ttf` or
+and use Unicode-encoded fonts (typically in ''ttf'' or ''otf'' formats).
-`otf` formats).  The [`cm-unicode`](https://ctan.org/pkg/cm-unicode) fonts carry the
+The [[ctanpkg>cm-unicode]] fonts carry the flag in this arena,
-flag in this arena, along with the Latin Modern set.
+along with the Latin Modern set.
+-----
+//Source:// [[faquk>FAQ-ECfonts|What are the EC fonts?]]
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