Hi, just a small observation. Fact: Switching from OT1 to T1 (e.g. adding \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}) changes appearence of documents, in particular titles of (sub)sections become narrower (and a number of lines in such a title can decrease and so on). The reason is that ecbx1440/1728 is narrower than cmbx12 at 14.40/17.28 pt. Corallary 1: The default encoding in 2e shouldn't be changed. Corallary 2: Right now an encoding is unfortunately more than simply a glyph collection. And maybe it will never change :-( Best regards, Sasha