> > the new file is a good bit larger than the old, with several more > > font tables illustrative of the various encodings. > > Any reason why you use pdfTeX for this? Doing the same with dvipdfmx, > I get an `encguide.pdf' file with a size of 771KB, compared to your > version which has whopping 1498KB. i don't have dvipdfm on my home machine, where i did all the development, and hadn't thought of switching. i'll see if i can get dvipdfmx built and usable at work between now and the time of the release of latex. r