[Wolfgang, I hope you don't mind me copying parts of your response to the list. -adam] Wolfgang Zillig said this at Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:06:32 +0200:

Hello Adam,

thanks for your answer!

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Hi. I'm just catching up with this issue. Mojca is giving you the right information. I've installed hfbright on my machine and can confirm that it is OT1 (context's `default' encoding) only. The easiest way to fix this for you is to return to the typescripts and make sure they say: [encoding=default] instead of [encoding=ec]

ok, I did not know that OT1 is equal default.

It's another FAQ...

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As you are probably aware, there are issues with hyphenation and the OT1 encoding. However, the TFMs and free Type 1 glyphs for this font simply are not around.

in the package hfbright there are pfb included (I think this are the type 1). tfms are also on my system

Yes, on my system, the TFMs are actually from the CMBright package, and the map file redirects to the HFBright Type1/.pfb files.

I don't know much about hyphenantion, but why are there problems?

There's a little bit of explanation here: http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Encodings_and_Regimes ...but basically, TeX's hyphenation trickery doesn't know how to deal with composite characters (when it puts an " atop a u [pardon my 7-bit rendition]). If a word contains a composite "u as a character, it won't break. If it contains a full ü, TeX can deal with it.

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May I suggest looking at the new Latin Modern light sans fonts for text, and using hfbright for mathematics only?

Propably you are right and I should go the easy way and simply use an other font. Do you know if there is a ready package for the Latin Modern light sans?

Um, disregard that. I must have hallucinated that font. It doesn't exist. Sorry. adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-