On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:22:55PM +0100, Frank Mittelbach wrote: > i nevertheless begin to wonder if we should change the default font > encoding > from OT1 to T1 so that more people get proper hyphenation without the > need to > say > > \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} > > in their documents and would be interested to hear what the opinion on > this > list would be (not that i consider this list a representative sample of > the > average LaTeX user). Maybe another way to do it is to put it in babel. English writers don't really need T1 fonts, and don't need a change in latex2e right now. But any language in babel could have a default inputenc and fontenc, such that setting \usepackage[francais]{babel} or (german, or any west europe language) would automatically set the T1 fontenc and the latin1 inputenc. Setting \usepackage[russian]{babel} would select a different and suitable (inputenc,fontenc) tupple. -- Éric Brunet