Re: fonts in embedded tex in embedded metapost in context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:30 PM 12/11/00 +0100, Denis B. Roegel wrote:

>Presumably, the regime is similar to a mapping function

No, an encoding maps input or commands to a font char, a mapping takes care
of upper/lowercase handling, and a regime is a input char translation thing. 

>(I checked the enco* files).
>What I would like to know is what regime I am supposed to use
>in the following cases:
>
>  - input in il1 and cmr10 font

a regime, like [latin1] which will go into enco-lat but is not yet defined

>  - input in il1 and ecrm1000 font

an encoding, this time [ec]

>  - normal 7 bit input (such as \'e) and cmr10 font

nothing, works by default

>  - normal 7 bit input (such as \'e) and ecrm1000 font

in this case, we need font-ecr i suppose, something like font-csr and
font-plr, this time with an il1 spec, or in tex world terms
encoding=ec

>Also, \enableencoding [il1] is not clear to me. What does it do?
>Does it merely make a bunch of characters active?

no, there is no il1, it's [ec]

You may make me a [latin1] regime fo you want. 

imagine the steps for cmr: 

  composed(e,") -> regime[latin1] -> \"e -> composed tex char  
  \"e                                    -> composed tex char

and for ecmr

  composed(e,") -> encoding as triggered by font -> composed(e,")
  \"e           -> idem                          -> composed(e,")

[there is btw an aer font file that may suit your needs]

Hans
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