David Carlisle writes:
 >    I still use OT1 for French and will continue until new fonts
 >    appear in public domain with the same quality as CM fonts for
 >    the 128-255 range.
 >
 >      --bg
 >
 >
 > With mltex presumably? Using standard TeX isn't this exactly equivalent
...

 Since Web2c is a standard, the --mltex option is standard too. Yes
mltex is quite appropriate for a default format for French as well as
for all european languages and produced glyphs a far better...

 > to using a VF based re-encoding of the cm fonts such as ae fonts?

i don't speak about any virtual font which use T1 encoding, obviously.

  --bg