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5% Nicer handling of the Computer Modern Typewriter font
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7% (c) 1996 Mark Wooding
8%
9%----- Revision history -----------------------------------------------------
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18% Revision 1.1 1996/11/19 20:47:55 mdw
19% Initial revision
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24% \begin{meta-comment} <general public licence>
25%%
26%% mdwlist package -- various list-related things
27%% Copyright (c) 1996 Mark Wooding
28%%
29%% This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
30%% it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
31%% the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
32%% (at your option) any later version.
33%%
34%% This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
35%% but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
36%% MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
37%% GNU General Public License for more details.
38%%
39%% You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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41%% Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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43% \end{meta-comment}
44%
45%
46% \begin{meta-comment} <Package preambles>
47%<+sty>\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
48%<+sty>\ProvidesPackage{cmtt}
49%<+fd>\ProvidesFile{mTTcmtt.fd}
50%<+def>\ProvidesFile{mTTcmtt.def}
51%<+sty|fd|def> [1996/05/25 1.1 Handing of the cmtt font]
52% \end{meta-comment}
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86f6a31e 55%% \CharacterTable
56%% {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
57%% Lower-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
58%% Digits \0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9
59%% Exclamation \! Double quote \" Hash (number) \#
60%% Dollar \$ Percent \% Ampersand \&
61%% Acute accent \' Left paren \( Right paren \)
62%% Asterisk \* Plus \+ Comma \,
63%% Minus \- Point \. Solidus \/
64%% Colon \: Semicolon \; Less than \<
65%% Equals \= Greater than \> Question mark \?
66%% Commercial at \@ Left bracket \[ Backslash \\
67%% Right bracket \] Circumflex \^ Underscore \_
68%% Grave accent \` Left brace \{ Vertical bar \|
69%% Right brace \} Tilde \~}
70%%
71%
72% \begin{meta-comment}
73%
74%<*driver>
75\input{mdwtools}
76\describespackage{cmtt}
77\mdwdoc
78%</driver>
79%
80% \end{meta-comment}
81%
82%^^A-------------------------------------------------------------------------
83% \section{Introductory note}
84%
85% \LaTeX\ has a rather cunning encoding handling system, which makes funny
86% commands like accents work properly independent of the current font's
87% actual layout. While this works rather well most of the time, the standard
88% \mtt{tt} font has been rather left out of things. \LaTeX\ assumes that
89% the Computer Modern Typewriter fonts have exactly the same layout as the
90% more normal Computer Modern Roman family (i.e., that both conform to the
91% \mtt{OT1} encoding). This plainly isn't true, since the Typewriter font
92% contains a bunch of standard ASCII characters which are omitted from the
93% standard Computer Modern fonts, such as curly braces \mtt{\{} and \mtt{\}},
94% and the backslash \mtt{\\}; these are usually dug up from the maths fonts,
95% which looks fine in normal text, but looks really odd in monospace text.
96% Compare `\texttt{\textbackslash begin\{document\}}' to
97% `\mtt{\\begin\{document\}}', for example.
98%
99% There are two possibilities for dealing with this problem. One is to use
100% the \mtt{\\verb} command, which works since all the extra characters in
101% the Typewriter font are in the correct places, or use the DC~fonts, which
102% have a proper encoding set up which contains all of these special
103% characters anyway.
104%
105% Neither of these solutions is perfect. Using \mtt{\\verb} causes all
106% manner of little niggly problems: you can't use it in footnotes or
107% section headings, for example. (There are of course workarounds for this
108% sort of thing: the author's \package{footnote} package provides a
109% \env{footnote} environment which will allow verbatim text, and verbatim
110% text in section headings can be achieved if one is sufficiently
111% \TeX nical.) Using the DC~fonts is fine, although you actually lose a
112% glyph or two. As far as the author is aware, the character \mtt{\'} (an
113% `unsexed' single quote) is not present in the \mtt{T1}-encoded version of
114% Computer Modern Typewriter, although it is hidden away in the original
115% version. The author has found a need for this character in computer
116% listings, and was horrified to discover that it was replaced by a German
117% single quote character (\mtt{\\quotesinglbase}).
118%
119% This package defines a special encoding for the Computer Modern Typewriter
120% font, so that documents can take advantage of its ASCII characters without
121% resorting to verbatim text. (The main advantage of the DC~fonts, that
122% words containing accents can be hyohenated, doesn't really apply to the
123% Typewriter font, since it doesn't allow hyphenation by default anyway.)
124%
125% There are several files you'll need to create:
126% \begin{description} \def\makelabel#1{\hskip\labelsep\mttfamily#1\hfil}
127%
128% \item [cmtt.sty] tells \LaTeX\ that there's a new encoding. It also
129% provides some options for customising some aspects of the
130% encoding, and defines some useful commands.
131%
132% \item [mTTenc.def] describes the encoding to \LaTeX: it sets up all the
133% appropriate text commands so that they produce beautiful results.
134%
135% \item [mTTcmtt.fd] describes the re-encoded version of the font. This
136% is more or less a copy of the file \mtt{OT1cmtt.fd}.
137%
138% \end{description}
139%
140% The package accepts some options which may be useful:
141% \begin{description} \def\makelabel#1{\hskip\labelsep\sffamily#1\hfil}
142%
143% \item [override] overrides the meaning of the \mtt{\\ttfamily} command
144% (and therefore also the \mtt{\\texttt} command too), making it the
145% same as the new \mtt{\\mttfamily} command. This isn't the default
146% just in case the change breaks something in an unexpected way.
147%
148% \item [t1] informs the package that you're using the \mtt{T1} encoding,
149% and therefore can borrow some accented characters from the DC~version
150% of Computer Modern Typewriter. This will probably be unnecessary,
151% since the package attempts to work out what to do all by itself.
152%
153% \item [ot1] forces the package \emph{not} to use the DC~version of the
154% Computer Modern Typewriter font for funny accents. Only use this
155% option if the package thinks it should use the DC~Typewriter font
156% when it shouldn't.
157%
158% \end{description}
159%
160% \DescribeMacro{\mttfamily}
161% The command \mtt{\\mttfamily} selects the properly-encoded Typewriter
162% font. It's a declaration which works just like the \mtt{\\ttfamily}
163% command, except that comamnds like \mtt{\\\}} and \mtt{\\\_} use the
164% characters from the font rather than choosing odd-looking versions from
165% the maths fonts. All of the accent commands still work properly. In fact,
166% some accent commands which didn't work before have been fixed. For
167% example, saying `\mtt{\\texttt\{P\\'al Erd\\H os\}}' would produce
168% something truly appalling like `\texttt{P\'al Erd\H os}', which is
169% obviously ghastly. The new encoding handles this properly, and produces
170% `\textmtt{P\'al Erd\H os}'.\footnote{
171% This isn't quite perfect. The accent, which isn't actually present in
172% the Typewriter font, is taken from the Computer Modern bold font, but
173% it doesn't look too bad. However, if you pass the option \textsf{t1}
174% to the \package{cmtt} package when you load it, the accent will be taken
175% from the DC~Typewriter font, and it will look totally wonderful.}
176%
177% \DescribeMacro{\textmtt}
178% Font changing commands are much more convenient than th declarations,
179% so a command \mtt{\\textmtt} is provided: it just typesets its argument
180% in the re-encoded Typewriter font.
181%
182% \DescribeMacro{\mtt}
183% Rather more excitingly, the \mtt{\\mtt} command allows you to generate
184% almost-verbatim text very easily, without any of the restrictions of
185% the \mtt{\\verb} command. This command was inspired by something which
186% David Carlisle said to me in an email correspondence regarding the
187% overuse of verbatim commands.
188%
189% \mtt{\\mtt} redefines several `short' commands to typeset the obvious
190% characters. The complete list is shown below: there are some oddities,
191% so watch out.
192%
193% ^^A This is an evil table. See if I care. (This is based on lots of
194% ^^A hacking I did in glyphs.tex, but a good deal less horrible.)
195%
196% \medskip
197% \hbox to \hsize\bgroup
198% \hfil\vbox\bgroup
199% \def\ex#1#2{\strut
200% \enskip
201% \mtt{\\\char`#2}\quad\hfil%
202% \mtt{#2}\enskip}
203% \def\h{\noalign{\hrule}}
204% \def\v{height2pt&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&\cr}
205% \let~\relax
206% \offinterlineskip
207% \ialign\bgroup&\vrule#&\ex#\cr \h\v
208% &~\\&&~\{&&~\}&&~\_&&~\^&\cr \v\h\v
209% &~\$&&~\%&&~\&&&~\#&&~\~&\cr \v\h\v
210% &~\"&&~\'&&~\ &&~\|&&\omit\hfil&\cr \v\h
211% \egroup\egroup
212% \hfil\egroup
213% \medskip
214%
215% As well as redefining these commands, \mtt{\\mtt} will endeavour to make
216% single special characters display themselves in a verbatim-like way. This
217% only works on `active' characters (like \mtt{~}), and \mtt{\\mtt} makes
218% no attempt to change the category codes of any characters.
219%
220% Among other things, you'll probably noticed that several accent-making
221% commands have been redefined. You can still use these accents through
222% the \mtt{\\a} command, by saying \mtt{\\a'}, \mtt{\\a\^} and so on,
223% as in the \env{tabbing} environment.
224%
225% There are also some oddities in the table: \mtt{\|} and \mtt{\"} can be
226% accessed easily without playing with silly commands. Well, that's almost
227% the case: these two characters are both often used as `short' verbatim
228% commands, so they are forced back to their normal meanings so you can
229% type them.
230%
231% Finally, a word on spacing. The \mtt{\\\ } command has been hijacked
232% to produce a funny `visible space' character. You can still produce
233% multiple spaces by saying something like `\mtt{\ \{\}\ \{\}}\dots\mtt{\ }',
234% which is a bit contrived, but that's tough. Also, \mtt{~} has been stolen
235% so that you can type \mtt{~} characters (e.g., in URLs), so the only
236% way you can tpye a nonbreaking space is by using the \mtt{\\nobreakspace}
237% command, which is a bit of a mouthful. There's an abbreviation, though:
238% \mtt{\\nbsp} now means exactly the same thing.
239%
240% Was that not all supremely useful? Oh, just a note: this document doesn't
241% use a single verbatim command or environment (except in the listings,
242% where it's unavoidable) -- it's all done with \mtt{\\mtt}.
243%
244% \implementation
245%
246% \section{Implementation}
247%
248% \subsection{The package}
249%
250% \begin{macrocode}
251%<*sty>
252% \end{macrocode}
253%
254% I'll start with some options handling.
255%
256% \begin{macrocode}
257\newif\ifcmtt@override
258\newif\ifcmtt@dcfonts
259\def\@tempa{T1}\ifx\encodingdefault\@tempa
260 \cmtt@dcfontstrue
261\fi
262\DeclareOption{override}{\cmtt@overridetrue}
263\DeclareOption{t1}{\cmtt@dcfontstrue}
264\DeclareOption{ot1}{\cmtt@dcfontsfalse}
265\ProcessOptions
266% \end{macrocode}
267%
268% This bit is really trivial. I'll just declare the font encoding. Oh, that
269% was easy.
270%
271% \begin{macrocode}
272\DeclareFontEncoding{mTT}{}{}
273% \end{macrocode}
274%
275% Wait: there's a problem. \LaTeX\ will now complain bitterly that it can't
276% find the font \mtt{mTT/cmr/m/n}, which is readonable, since I haven't
277% declared any such font. The following line should sort this out,
278%
279% \begin{macrocode}
280\DeclareFontSubstitution{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{n}
281% \end{macrocode}
282%
283% Now I'd better load all the text commands I'll need when in this funny
284% font variant.
285%
286% \begin{macrocode}
287\input{mTTenc.def}
288% \end{macrocode}
289%
290% \begin{macro}{\mttfamily}
291% \begin{macro}{\textmtt}
292%
293% Finally, I'll need to define a command which switches to this funny font,
294% and a \mtt{\\text}\dots\ command for it.
295%
296% \begin{macrocode}
297\DeclareRobustCommand{\mttfamily}{%
298 \fontencoding{mTT}\fontfamily{\ttdefault}\selectfont%
299}
300\DeclareTextFontCommand{\textmtt}{\mttfamily}
301% \end{macrocode}
302%
303% \end{macro}
304% \end{macro}
305%
306% If an override was requested, make \mtt{\\ttfamily} the same as
307% \mtt{\\mttfamily}.
308%
309% \begin{macrocode}
310\ifcmtt@override
311 \let\ttfamily\mttfamily
312\fi
313% \end{macrocode}
314%
315% Well, that's all that's needed for the font definition. Here's a command
316% which will typeset its argument in the typewriter font, allowing easy
317% access to all the funny characters, and printing them properly in the
318% correct font (which \mtt{\\\{} doesn't do, for example).
319%
320% \begin{macro}{\mtt@setchar}
321%
322% This macro assigns the given meaning to the given control sequence. Also,
323% if the character named in the control sequence is currently set active,
324% it will set the active meaning of the character to the same value.
325%
326% \begin{macrocode}
327\def\mtt@setchar#1#2{%
328 \ifx#1#2\chardef#1`#1\else\let#1#2\fi%
329 \ifnum\catcode`#1=13%
330 \begingroup%
331 \lccode`\~=`#1%
332 \lowercase{\endgroup\let~#1}%
333 \fi%
334}
335% \end{macrocode}
336%
337% \end{macro}
338%
339% \begin{macro}{\mtt@chars}
340%
341% This macro lists the various control sequences which should be set up,
342% so that they can be easily added to.
343%
344% \begin{macrocode}
345\def\mtt@chars{%
346 \do\#\#%
347 \do\%\%%
348 \do\&\&%
349 \do\^\^%
350 \do\~\~%
351 \do\'\textquotesingl%
352 \do\"\textquotedbl%
353 \do\|\textbar%
354 \do\$\textdollar%
355 \do\_\textunderscore%
356 \do\{\textbraceleft%
357 \do\}\textbraceright%
358 \do\\\textbackslash%
359 \do\ \textvisiblespace%
360}
361% \end{macrocode}
362%
363% \end{macro}
364%
365% \begin{macro}{\mtt@do}
366%
367% This just sets up all the special characters listed above. It's a simple
368% abbreviation, really.
369%
370% \begin{macrocode}
371\def\mtt@do{\let\do\mtt@setchar\mtt@chars}
372% \end{macrocode}
373%
374% \end{macro}
375%
376% \begin{macro}{\mtt}
377%
378% And finally, the macro itself. Ta-da!
379%
380% \begin{macrocode}
381\DeclareRobustCommand\mtt[1]{\textmtt{\mtt@do#1}}
382% \end{macrocode}
383%
384% \end{macro}
385%
386% \begin{macro}{\@tabacckludge}
387%
388% The otherwise almost totally perfect \mtt{\\@tabacckludge} gets very
389% upset when its argument is an active character. (If you're wondering,
390% this is the command which is responsible for the behaviour of the \mtt{\\a}
391% command.) Adding a \mtt{\\string} makes everything work perfectly.
392%
393% \begin{macrocode}
394\def\@tabacckludge#1{%
395 \expandafter\@changed@cmd\csname\string#1\endcsname\relax%
396}
397\let\a\@tabacckludge
398% \end{macrocode}
399%
400% \end{macro}
401%
402% \begin{macro}{\nbsp}
403%
404% Make an abbreviation for \mtt{\\nobreakspace}.
405%
406% \begin{macrocode}
407\let\nbsp\nobreakspace
408% \end{macrocode}
409%
410% \end{macro}
411%
412% I think that's all that I have to do for the package. If there's any
413% more to do, I'll add it later.
414%
415% \begin{macrocode}
416%</sty>
417% \end{macrocode}
418%
419%
420% \subsection{The font definition file}
421%
422% This is obviously copied almost verbatim from the file \mtt{OT1cmtt.fd}.
423%
424% \begin{macrocode}
425%<*fd>
426\DeclareFontFamily{mTT}{cmtt}{\hyphenchar\font\m@ne}
427\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{n}{
428 <5> <6> <7> <8> cmtt8
429 <9> cmtt9
430 <10> <10.95> cmtt10
431 <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88> cmtt12
432}{}
433\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{it}{
434 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
435 cmitt10
436}{}
437\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{sl}{
438 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
439 cmsltt10
440}{}
441\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{sc}{
442 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
443 cmtcsc10
444}{}
445\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{ui} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
446\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{n} {<->sub * cmtt/m/n} {}
447\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{it} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
448\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{ui} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
449%</fd>
450% \end{macrocode}
451%
452%
453% \subsection{The encoding definitions file}
454%
455% I've saved the trickiest bit until last. This file defines the mappings
456% from text commands to glyphs in the font.
457%
458% \begin{macrocode}
459%<*def>
460% \end{macrocode}
461%
462% First for some fun with accents. The |cmtt| font doesn't contain all of
463% the accents which the other Computer Modern fonts do, because those slots
464% contain the standard ASCII characters which usually have to be `borrowed'
465% from the maths fonts.
466%
467% Anyway, there's a load which don't need any special treatment. These are
468% chosen from the \mtt{OT1} encoding by default anyway, so I needn't
469% bother unless I'm really bothered about speed. I'm not, so I'll save
470% the memory.
471%
472% Following the example of the \TeX book, I'll use the bold roman font
473% for accents, so that they don't look really spindly. This is actually
474% remarkably difficult to do, because the \textsf{NFSS} keeps getting in
475% the way. I'll look after the old font name in a macro (it's handy that
476% \textsf{NFSS} maintains this for me) and change to a known font, do the
477% accent, change font back again, do the argument to the accent, and then
478% close the group I did all of this in, so that no-one else notices what a
479% naughty chap I am, really. This is startlingly evil.
480%
481% \begin{macrocode}
482\def\cmtt@accent#1#2{{%
483 \let\@old@font\font@name%
484 \ifcmtt@dcfonts%
485 \fontencoding{T1}\selectfont%
486 \else%
487 \usefont{OT1}{cmr}{bx}{n}%
488 \fi%
489 #1{\@old@font#2}%
490}}
491% \end{macrocode}
492%
493% And now for the actual offending accents.
494%
495% \begin{macrocode}
496\DeclareTextCommand{\H}{mTT}{\cmtt@accent\H}
497\DeclareTextCommand{\.}{mTT}{\cmtt@accent\.}
498% \end{macrocode}
499%
500% The `under' accents are all OK, so I shan't bother to define them either.
501% Similarly, lots of the text symbol commands are fine as they are by
502% default and I don't need to try and define them again.
503%
504% This, then, is the remaining commands which really need sorting out.
505% (By the way, the only reason I've redefined \mtt{\\textellipsis} is
506% because otherwise it will mess up the nice monospacing.)
507%
508% \begin{macrocode}
509\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbackslash}{mTT}{92}
510\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbar}{mTT}{124}
511\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbraceleft}{mTT}{123}
512\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbraceright}{mTT}{125}
513\DeclareTextSymbol{\textless}{mTT}{60}
514\DeclareTextSymbol{\textgreater}{mTT}{62}
515\DeclareTextSymbol{\textunderscore}{mTT}{95}
516\DeclareTextSymbol{\textvisiblespace}{mTT}{32}
517\DeclareTextCommand{\textellipsis}{mTT}{...}
518\DeclareTextSymbol{\textquotedbl}{mTT}{34}
519\DeclareTextSymbol{\textquotesingl}{mTT}{13}
520% \end{macrocode}
521%
522% That's all there is. Please return to your homes.
523%
524% \Finale
525%
526\endinput