Adam Lindsay wrote:

Patrick Gundlach said this at Fri, 19 Aug 2005 16:03:31 +0200:

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encodings, and of course that raises an entirely different matter. Even though cork.enc, EC.enc, tex256.enc, etc. are all distinct _encoding_vectors_, they still seek to implement the same _font_encoding_ as far as TeX is concerned.

What is a _font_encoding_ here?

Well, from the context, I'd conclude that it's the logical, abstract selection of characters that is independent of a given font's specifics. I welcome the concept, as it's a powerful one when dealing with modern fonts.

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Sounds like a LaTeX terminology.

I have no idea where it comes from. Is there a place where this is used/ defined?

font encoding is usaually used when we talk about what tex is dealing with, i.e. some input (regime in context) is mapped onto the slots read in from the tfm file, but no names are involved, just numbers/slots; and then tex uses that (font) encoding when it hyphenates; so the hyphenation patterns should be loaded under a specific font encoding; btw, it's for this reason that context has a language-encoding relationship (patterns are loaded multiple times, for different font encodings) and that i use generic patterns so, in the end we may will have - adobe-dense.enc (will be mostly used in afm2tfm cum suis) - unicode-dense.enc (for the record) and this is relatively independent of context (that does not read the files) but it is important for the map file; Hans Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------