Re: [Bug-AUCTeX] minor annoyance when opening tex file in carbonemacs

[David Kastrup]

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez <address@hidden> writes:

> On Feb 7, 2008, at 11:40 AM, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> There are several generic input encoding packages IIRC, but for plain
>> TeX the easiest path is probably to use translation files.  You'll
>> need
>> T1-encoded fonts in any case (or hyphenation is just a mess), and then
>> the il1-t1 translation file should do the trick.
>
> David,
>
> Thanks a lot for your help. I've tried loading the T1 (lmodern) fonts
> through the fontch package, by prepending the following lines to my
> tex document:
>
> %& --translate-file=il1-t1.tcx
> \input fontch.tex
> \let\LMTone\relax
> \let\LMTSone\relax
>
> (see fontch's README file). Unfortunately, although the document
> compiles and doesn't complains about unknown characters, accented
> letters are not properly rendered (they are omitted). Could you please
> give me a pointer as to how to load the T1 fonts?

No, I can't, never having worked with plain TeX and T1 fonts.  I
recommend you ask on comp.text.tex.  Or look at the author information
for il1-t1 and ask its author: presumably he had some personal itch to
scratch and would know how to do it.

All the best,

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum