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25% \begin{meta-comment} <Package preambles>
26%<+sty>\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
27%<+sty>\ProvidesPackage{cmtt}
af8e5527 28%<+fd>\ProvidesFile{mttcmtt.fd}
29%<+def>\ProvidesFile{mttcmtt.def}
af8af7eb 30%<+sty|fd|def> [2020/09/06 1.14.0 Handing of the cmtt font]
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32%
93aadd20 33% \CheckSum{174}
86f6a31e 34%% \CharacterTable
35%% {Upper-case \A\B\C\D\E\F\G\H\I\J\K\L\M\N\O\P\Q\R\S\T\U\V\W\X\Y\Z
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38%% Exclamation \! Double quote \" Hash (number) \#
39%% Dollar \$ Percent \% Ampersand \&
40%% Acute accent \' Left paren \( Right paren \)
41%% Asterisk \* Plus \+ Comma \,
42%% Minus \- Point \. Solidus \/
43%% Colon \: Semicolon \; Less than \<
44%% Equals \= Greater than \> Question mark \?
45%% Commercial at \@ Left bracket \[ Backslash \\
46%% Right bracket \] Circumflex \^ Underscore \_
47%% Grave accent \` Left brace \{ Vertical bar \|
48%% Right brace \} Tilde \~}
49%%
50%
51% \begin{meta-comment}
52%
53%<*driver>
54\input{mdwtools}
55\describespackage{cmtt}
56\mdwdoc
57%</driver>
58%
59% \end{meta-comment}
60%
61%^^A-------------------------------------------------------------------------
62% \section{Introductory note}
63%
64% \LaTeX\ has a rather cunning encoding handling system, which makes funny
65% commands like accents work properly independent of the current font's
66% actual layout. While this works rather well most of the time, the standard
67% \mtt{tt} font has been rather left out of things. \LaTeX\ assumes that
68% the Computer Modern Typewriter fonts have exactly the same layout as the
69% more normal Computer Modern Roman family (i.e., that both conform to the
70% \mtt{OT1} encoding). This plainly isn't true, since the Typewriter font
71% contains a bunch of standard ASCII characters which are omitted from the
72% standard Computer Modern fonts, such as curly braces \mtt{\{} and \mtt{\}},
73% and the backslash \mtt{\\}; these are usually dug up from the maths fonts,
74% which looks fine in normal text, but looks really odd in monospace text.
75% Compare `\texttt{\textbackslash begin\{document\}}' to
76% `\mtt{\\begin\{document\}}', for example.
77%
78% There are two possibilities for dealing with this problem. One is to use
79% the \mtt{\\verb} command, which works since all the extra characters in
80% the Typewriter font are in the correct places, or use the DC~fonts, which
81% have a proper encoding set up which contains all of these special
82% characters anyway.
83%
84% Neither of these solutions is perfect. Using \mtt{\\verb} causes all
85% manner of little niggly problems: you can't use it in footnotes or
86% section headings, for example. (There are of course workarounds for this
87% sort of thing: the author's \package{footnote} package provides a
88% \env{footnote} environment which will allow verbatim text, and verbatim
89% text in section headings can be achieved if one is sufficiently
90% \TeX nical.) Using the DC~fonts is fine, although you actually lose a
91% glyph or two. As far as the author is aware, the character \mtt{\'} (an
92% `unsexed' single quote) is not present in the \mtt{T1}-encoded version of
93% Computer Modern Typewriter, although it is hidden away in the original
94% version. The author has found a need for this character in computer
95% listings, and was horrified to discover that it was replaced by a German
96% single quote character (\mtt{\\quotesinglbase}).
97%
98% This package defines a special encoding for the Computer Modern Typewriter
99% font, so that documents can take advantage of its ASCII characters without
100% resorting to verbatim text. (The main advantage of the DC~fonts, that
101% words containing accents can be hyohenated, doesn't really apply to the
102% Typewriter font, since it doesn't allow hyphenation by default anyway.)
103%
104% There are several files you'll need to create:
78cdb9cc 105% \begin{description} \setdescriptionlabel{\mttfamily#1}
86f6a31e 106%
107% \item [cmtt.sty] tells \LaTeX\ that there's a new encoding. It also
108% provides some options for customising some aspects of the
109% encoding, and defines some useful commands.
110%
af8e5527 111% \item [mttenc.def] describes the encoding to \LaTeX: it sets up all the
86f6a31e 112% appropriate text commands so that they produce beautiful results.
113%
af8e5527 114% \item [mttcmtt.fd] describes the re-encoded version of the font. this
115% is more or less a copy of the file \mtt{ot1cmtt.fd}.
86f6a31e 116%
117% \end{description}
118%
119% The package accepts some options which may be useful:
78cdb9cc 120% \begin{description} \setdescriptionlabel{\sffamily#1}
86f6a31e 121%
122% \item [override] overrides the meaning of the \mtt{\\ttfamily} command
123% (and therefore also the \mtt{\\texttt} command too), making it the
124% same as the new \mtt{\\mttfamily} command. This isn't the default
125% just in case the change breaks something in an unexpected way.
126%
127% \item [t1] informs the package that you're using the \mtt{T1} encoding,
128% and therefore can borrow some accented characters from the DC~version
129% of Computer Modern Typewriter. This will probably be unnecessary,
130% since the package attempts to work out what to do all by itself.
131%
132% \item [ot1] forces the package \emph{not} to use the DC~version of the
133% Computer Modern Typewriter font for funny accents. Only use this
134% option if the package thinks it should use the DC~Typewriter font
135% when it shouldn't.
136%
137% \end{description}
138%
139% \DescribeMacro{\mttfamily}
140% The command \mtt{\\mttfamily} selects the properly-encoded Typewriter
141% font. It's a declaration which works just like the \mtt{\\ttfamily}
142% command, except that comamnds like \mtt{\\\}} and \mtt{\\\_} use the
143% characters from the font rather than choosing odd-looking versions from
144% the maths fonts. All of the accent commands still work properly. In fact,
145% some accent commands which didn't work before have been fixed. For
146% example, saying `\mtt{\\texttt\{P\\'al Erd\\H os\}}' would produce
147% something truly appalling like `\texttt{P\'al Erd\H os}', which is
148% obviously ghastly. The new encoding handles this properly, and produces
149% `\textmtt{P\'al Erd\H os}'.\footnote{
150% This isn't quite perfect. The accent, which isn't actually present in
151% the Typewriter font, is taken from the Computer Modern bold font, but
152% it doesn't look too bad. However, if you pass the option \textsf{t1}
153% to the \package{cmtt} package when you load it, the accent will be taken
154% from the DC~Typewriter font, and it will look totally wonderful.}
155%
156% \DescribeMacro{\textmtt}
157% Font changing commands are much more convenient than th declarations,
158% so a command \mtt{\\textmtt} is provided: it just typesets its argument
159% in the re-encoded Typewriter font.
160%
161% \DescribeMacro{\mtt}
162% Rather more excitingly, the \mtt{\\mtt} command allows you to generate
163% almost-verbatim text very easily, without any of the restrictions of
164% the \mtt{\\verb} command. This command was inspired by something which
165% David Carlisle said to me in an email correspondence regarding the
166% overuse of verbatim commands.
167%
168% \mtt{\\mtt} redefines several `short' commands to typeset the obvious
169% characters. The complete list is shown below: there are some oddities,
170% so watch out.
171%
172% ^^A This is an evil table. See if I care. (This is based on lots of
173% ^^A hacking I did in glyphs.tex, but a good deal less horrible.)
174%
175% \medskip
176% \hbox to \hsize\bgroup
177% \hfil\vbox\bgroup
178% \def\ex#1#2{\strut
179% \enskip
180% \mtt{\\\char`#2}\quad\hfil%
181% \mtt{#2}\enskip}
182% \def\h{\noalign{\hrule}}
183% \def\v{height2pt&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&\cr}
184% \let~\relax
185% \offinterlineskip
186% \ialign\bgroup&\vrule#&\ex#\cr \h\v
187% &~\\&&~\{&&~\}&&~\_&&~\^&\cr \v\h\v
188% &~\$&&~\%&&~\&&&~\#&&~\~&\cr \v\h\v
189% &~\"&&~\'&&~\ &&~\|&&\omit\hfil&\cr \v\h
190% \egroup\egroup
191% \hfil\egroup
192% \medskip
193%
194% As well as redefining these commands, \mtt{\\mtt} will endeavour to make
195% single special characters display themselves in a verbatim-like way. This
196% only works on `active' characters (like \mtt{~}), and \mtt{\\mtt} makes
197% no attempt to change the category codes of any characters.
198%
199% Among other things, you'll probably noticed that several accent-making
200% commands have been redefined. You can still use these accents through
201% the \mtt{\\a} command, by saying \mtt{\\a'}, \mtt{\\a\^} and so on,
202% as in the \env{tabbing} environment.
203%
204% There are also some oddities in the table: \mtt{\|} and \mtt{\"} can be
205% accessed easily without playing with silly commands. Well, that's almost
206% the case: these two characters are both often used as `short' verbatim
207% commands, so they are forced back to their normal meanings so you can
208% type them.
209%
210% Finally, a word on spacing. The \mtt{\\\ } command has been hijacked
211% to produce a funny `visible space' character. You can still produce
212% multiple spaces by saying something like `\mtt{\ \{\}\ \{\}}\dots\mtt{\ }',
213% which is a bit contrived, but that's tough. Also, \mtt{~} has been stolen
214% so that you can type \mtt{~} characters (e.g., in URLs), so the only
215% way you can tpye a nonbreaking space is by using the \mtt{\\nobreakspace}
216% command, which is a bit of a mouthful. There's an abbreviation, though:
217% \mtt{\\nbsp} now means exactly the same thing.
218%
219% Was that not all supremely useful? Oh, just a note: this document doesn't
220% use a single verbatim command or environment (except in the listings,
221% where it's unavoidable) -- it's all done with \mtt{\\mtt}.
222%
223% \implementation
224%
225% \section{Implementation}
226%
227% \subsection{The package}
228%
229% \begin{macrocode}
230%<*sty>
231% \end{macrocode}
232%
233% I'll start with some options handling.
234%
235% \begin{macrocode}
236\newif\ifcmtt@override
237\newif\ifcmtt@dcfonts
238\def\@tempa{T1}\ifx\encodingdefault\@tempa
239 \cmtt@dcfontstrue
240\fi
241\DeclareOption{override}{\cmtt@overridetrue}
242\DeclareOption{t1}{\cmtt@dcfontstrue}
243\DeclareOption{ot1}{\cmtt@dcfontsfalse}
244\ProcessOptions
245% \end{macrocode}
246%
247% This bit is really trivial. I'll just declare the font encoding. Oh, that
248% was easy.
249%
250% \begin{macrocode}
251\DeclareFontEncoding{mTT}{}{}
252% \end{macrocode}
253%
254% Wait: there's a problem. \LaTeX\ will now complain bitterly that it can't
af8e5527 255% find the font \mtt{mTT/cmr/m/n}, which is reasonable, since I haven't
86f6a31e 256% declared any such font. The following line should sort this out,
257%
258% \begin{macrocode}
259\DeclareFontSubstitution{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{n}
260% \end{macrocode}
261%
262% Now I'd better load all the text commands I'll need when in this funny
263% font variant.
264%
265% \begin{macrocode}
af8e5527 266\input{mttenc.def}
86f6a31e 267% \end{macrocode}
268%
269% \begin{macro}{\mttfamily}
270% \begin{macro}{\textmtt}
271%
272% Finally, I'll need to define a command which switches to this funny font,
273% and a \mtt{\\text}\dots\ command for it.
274%
275% \begin{macrocode}
276\DeclareRobustCommand{\mttfamily}{%
277 \fontencoding{mTT}\fontfamily{\ttdefault}\selectfont%
278}
279\DeclareTextFontCommand{\textmtt}{\mttfamily}
280% \end{macrocode}
281%
282% \end{macro}
283% \end{macro}
284%
285% If an override was requested, make \mtt{\\ttfamily} the same as
286% \mtt{\\mttfamily}.
287%
288% \begin{macrocode}
289\ifcmtt@override
290 \let\ttfamily\mttfamily
291\fi
292% \end{macrocode}
293%
294% Well, that's all that's needed for the font definition. Here's a command
295% which will typeset its argument in the typewriter font, allowing easy
296% access to all the funny characters, and printing them properly in the
297% correct font (which \mtt{\\\{} doesn't do, for example).
298%
299% \begin{macro}{\mtt@setchar}
300%
301% This macro assigns the given meaning to the given control sequence. Also,
302% if the character named in the control sequence is currently set active,
303% it will set the active meaning of the character to the same value.
304%
305% \begin{macrocode}
306\def\mtt@setchar#1#2{%
307 \ifx#1#2\chardef#1`#1\else\let#1#2\fi%
308 \ifnum\catcode`#1=13%
309 \begingroup%
310 \lccode`\~=`#1%
311 \lowercase{\endgroup\let~#1}%
312 \fi%
313}
314% \end{macrocode}
315%
316% \end{macro}
317%
318% \begin{macro}{\mtt@chars}
319%
320% This macro lists the various control sequences which should be set up,
321% so that they can be easily added to.
322%
323% \begin{macrocode}
324\def\mtt@chars{%
325 \do\#\#%
326 \do\%\%%
e8e9e5d8 327 \do\&\&%
86f6a31e 328 \do\^\^%
329 \do\~\~%
330 \do\'\textquotesingl%
331 \do\"\textquotedbl%
332 \do\|\textbar%
333 \do\$\textdollar%
334 \do\_\textunderscore%
335 \do\{\textbraceleft%
336 \do\}\textbraceright%
337 \do\\\textbackslash%
338 \do\ \textvisiblespace%
339}
340% \end{macrocode}
341%
342% \end{macro}
343%
344% \begin{macro}{\mtt@do}
345%
346% This just sets up all the special characters listed above. It's a simple
347% abbreviation, really.
348%
349% \begin{macrocode}
350\def\mtt@do{\let\do\mtt@setchar\mtt@chars}
351% \end{macrocode}
352%
353% \end{macro}
354%
355% \begin{macro}{\mtt}
356%
357% And finally, the macro itself. Ta-da!
358%
359% \begin{macrocode}
360\DeclareRobustCommand\mtt[1]{\textmtt{\mtt@do#1}}
361% \end{macrocode}
362%
363% \end{macro}
364%
365% \begin{macro}{\@tabacckludge}
366%
367% The otherwise almost totally perfect \mtt{\\@tabacckludge} gets very
368% upset when its argument is an active character. (If you're wondering,
369% this is the command which is responsible for the behaviour of the \mtt{\\a}
370% command.) Adding a \mtt{\\string} makes everything work perfectly.
371%
372% \begin{macrocode}
373\def\@tabacckludge#1{%
374 \expandafter\@changed@cmd\csname\string#1\endcsname\relax%
375}
376\let\a\@tabacckludge
377% \end{macrocode}
378%
379% \end{macro}
380%
381% \begin{macro}{\nbsp}
382%
383% Make an abbreviation for \mtt{\\nobreakspace}.
384%
385% \begin{macrocode}
386\let\nbsp\nobreakspace
387% \end{macrocode}
388%
389% \end{macro}
390%
391% I think that's all that I have to do for the package. If there's any
392% more to do, I'll add it later.
393%
394% \begin{macrocode}
395%</sty>
396% \end{macrocode}
397%
398%
399% \subsection{The font definition file}
400%
401% This is obviously copied almost verbatim from the file \mtt{OT1cmtt.fd}.
402%
403% \begin{macrocode}
404%<*fd>
405\DeclareFontFamily{mTT}{cmtt}{\hyphenchar\font\m@ne}
406\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{n}{
407 <5> <6> <7> <8> cmtt8
408 <9> cmtt9
409 <10> <10.95> cmtt10
410 <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88> cmtt12
411}{}
412\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{it}{
413 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
414 cmitt10
415}{}
416\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{sl}{
417 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
418 cmsltt10
419}{}
420\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{sc}{
421 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
422 cmtcsc10
423}{}
424\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{ui} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
425\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{n} {<->sub * cmtt/m/n} {}
426\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{it} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
427\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{ui} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
428%</fd>
429% \end{macrocode}
430%
431%
432% \subsection{The encoding definitions file}
433%
434% I've saved the trickiest bit until last. This file defines the mappings
435% from text commands to glyphs in the font.
436%
437% \begin{macrocode}
438%<*def>
439% \end{macrocode}
440%
441% First for some fun with accents. The |cmtt| font doesn't contain all of
442% the accents which the other Computer Modern fonts do, because those slots
443% contain the standard ASCII characters which usually have to be `borrowed'
444% from the maths fonts.
445%
446% Anyway, there's a load which don't need any special treatment. These are
447% chosen from the \mtt{OT1} encoding by default anyway, so I needn't
448% bother unless I'm really bothered about speed. I'm not, so I'll save
449% the memory.
450%
451% Following the example of the \TeX book, I'll use the bold roman font
452% for accents, so that they don't look really spindly. This is actually
453% remarkably difficult to do, because the \textsf{NFSS} keeps getting in
454% the way. I'll look after the old font name in a macro (it's handy that
455% \textsf{NFSS} maintains this for me) and change to a known font, do the
456% accent, change font back again, do the argument to the accent, and then
457% close the group I did all of this in, so that no-one else notices what a
458% naughty chap I am, really. This is startlingly evil.
459%
460% \begin{macrocode}
461\def\cmtt@accent#1#2{{%
462 \let\@old@font\font@name%
463 \ifcmtt@dcfonts%
464 \fontencoding{T1}\selectfont%
465 \else%
466 \usefont{OT1}{cmr}{bx}{n}%
467 \fi%
468 #1{\@old@font#2}%
469}}
470% \end{macrocode}
471%
472% And now for the actual offending accents.
473%
474% \begin{macrocode}
475\DeclareTextCommand{\H}{mTT}{\cmtt@accent\H}
476\DeclareTextCommand{\.}{mTT}{\cmtt@accent\.}
477% \end{macrocode}
478%
479% The `under' accents are all OK, so I shan't bother to define them either.
480% Similarly, lots of the text symbol commands are fine as they are by
481% default and I don't need to try and define them again.
482%
483% This, then, is the remaining commands which really need sorting out.
484% (By the way, the only reason I've redefined \mtt{\\textellipsis} is
485% because otherwise it will mess up the nice monospacing.)
486%
487% \begin{macrocode}
488\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbackslash}{mTT}{92}
489\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbar}{mTT}{124}
490\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbraceleft}{mTT}{123}
491\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbraceright}{mTT}{125}
492\DeclareTextSymbol{\textless}{mTT}{60}
493\DeclareTextSymbol{\textgreater}{mTT}{62}
494\DeclareTextSymbol{\textunderscore}{mTT}{95}
495\DeclareTextSymbol{\textvisiblespace}{mTT}{32}
496\DeclareTextCommand{\textellipsis}{mTT}{...}
497\DeclareTextSymbol{\textquotedbl}{mTT}{34}
498\DeclareTextSymbol{\textquotesingl}{mTT}{13}
499% \end{macrocode}
500%
501% That's all there is. Please return to your homes.
502%
503% \Finale
504%
505\endinput