>wonder if we should change the default font encoding from OT1 to T1 NO. Only at the next major upheaval of LaTeX. And only with freely available type-1 (Compter modernish) fonts with the T1 character set. This change would create much more disruption than several minor changes that have been rejected in the past, including a disruption of installations, as opposed to just improved formatting. Even for the cases where the change works as intended -- better hyphenation -- it will change the formatting of documents. I personally prefer the best formatting at any stage, but you have been holding the line strenuously against such changes. Donald Arseneau [log in to unmask]