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5% Nicer handling of the Computer Modern Typewriter font
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7% (c) 1996 Mark Wooding
8%
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12%%
13%% mdwlist package -- various list-related things
14%% Copyright (c) 1996 Mark Wooding
15%%
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32%
33% \begin{meta-comment} <Package preambles>
34%<+sty>\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
35%<+sty>\ProvidesPackage{cmtt}
af8e5527 36%<+fd>\ProvidesFile{mttcmtt.fd}
37%<+def>\ProvidesFile{mttcmtt.def}
86f6a31e 38%<+sty|fd|def> [1996/05/25 1.1 Handing of the cmtt font]
39% \end{meta-comment}
40%
93aadd20 41% \CheckSum{174}
86f6a31e 42%% \CharacterTable
43%% {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
44%% 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
45%% Digits \0\1\2\3\4\5\6\7\8\9
46%% Exclamation \! Double quote \" Hash (number) \#
47%% Dollar \$ Percent \% Ampersand \&
48%% Acute accent \' Left paren \( Right paren \)
49%% Asterisk \* Plus \+ Comma \,
50%% Minus \- Point \. Solidus \/
51%% Colon \: Semicolon \; Less than \<
52%% Equals \= Greater than \> Question mark \?
53%% Commercial at \@ Left bracket \[ Backslash \\
54%% Right bracket \] Circumflex \^ Underscore \_
55%% Grave accent \` Left brace \{ Vertical bar \|
56%% Right brace \} Tilde \~}
57%%
58%
59% \begin{meta-comment}
60%
61%<*driver>
62\input{mdwtools}
63\describespackage{cmtt}
64\mdwdoc
65%</driver>
66%
67% \end{meta-comment}
68%
69%^^A-------------------------------------------------------------------------
70% \section{Introductory note}
71%
72% \LaTeX\ has a rather cunning encoding handling system, which makes funny
73% commands like accents work properly independent of the current font's
74% actual layout. While this works rather well most of the time, the standard
75% \mtt{tt} font has been rather left out of things. \LaTeX\ assumes that
76% the Computer Modern Typewriter fonts have exactly the same layout as the
77% more normal Computer Modern Roman family (i.e., that both conform to the
78% \mtt{OT1} encoding). This plainly isn't true, since the Typewriter font
79% contains a bunch of standard ASCII characters which are omitted from the
80% standard Computer Modern fonts, such as curly braces \mtt{\{} and \mtt{\}},
81% and the backslash \mtt{\\}; these are usually dug up from the maths fonts,
82% which looks fine in normal text, but looks really odd in monospace text.
83% Compare `\texttt{\textbackslash begin\{document\}}' to
84% `\mtt{\\begin\{document\}}', for example.
85%
86% There are two possibilities for dealing with this problem. One is to use
87% the \mtt{\\verb} command, which works since all the extra characters in
88% the Typewriter font are in the correct places, or use the DC~fonts, which
89% have a proper encoding set up which contains all of these special
90% characters anyway.
91%
92% Neither of these solutions is perfect. Using \mtt{\\verb} causes all
93% manner of little niggly problems: you can't use it in footnotes or
94% section headings, for example. (There are of course workarounds for this
95% sort of thing: the author's \package{footnote} package provides a
96% \env{footnote} environment which will allow verbatim text, and verbatim
97% text in section headings can be achieved if one is sufficiently
98% \TeX nical.) Using the DC~fonts is fine, although you actually lose a
99% glyph or two. As far as the author is aware, the character \mtt{\'} (an
100% `unsexed' single quote) is not present in the \mtt{T1}-encoded version of
101% Computer Modern Typewriter, although it is hidden away in the original
102% version. The author has found a need for this character in computer
103% listings, and was horrified to discover that it was replaced by a German
104% single quote character (\mtt{\\quotesinglbase}).
105%
106% This package defines a special encoding for the Computer Modern Typewriter
107% font, so that documents can take advantage of its ASCII characters without
108% resorting to verbatim text. (The main advantage of the DC~fonts, that
109% words containing accents can be hyohenated, doesn't really apply to the
110% Typewriter font, since it doesn't allow hyphenation by default anyway.)
111%
112% There are several files you'll need to create:
113% \begin{description} \def\makelabel#1{\hskip\labelsep\mttfamily#1\hfil}
114%
115% \item [cmtt.sty] tells \LaTeX\ that there's a new encoding. It also
116% provides some options for customising some aspects of the
117% encoding, and defines some useful commands.
118%
af8e5527 119% \item [mttenc.def] describes the encoding to \LaTeX: it sets up all the
86f6a31e 120% appropriate text commands so that they produce beautiful results.
121%
af8e5527 122% \item [mttcmtt.fd] describes the re-encoded version of the font. this
123% is more or less a copy of the file \mtt{ot1cmtt.fd}.
86f6a31e 124%
125% \end{description}
126%
127% The package accepts some options which may be useful:
128% \begin{description} \def\makelabel#1{\hskip\labelsep\sffamily#1\hfil}
129%
130% \item [override] overrides the meaning of the \mtt{\\ttfamily} command
131% (and therefore also the \mtt{\\texttt} command too), making it the
132% same as the new \mtt{\\mttfamily} command. This isn't the default
133% just in case the change breaks something in an unexpected way.
134%
135% \item [t1] informs the package that you're using the \mtt{T1} encoding,
136% and therefore can borrow some accented characters from the DC~version
137% of Computer Modern Typewriter. This will probably be unnecessary,
138% since the package attempts to work out what to do all by itself.
139%
140% \item [ot1] forces the package \emph{not} to use the DC~version of the
141% Computer Modern Typewriter font for funny accents. Only use this
142% option if the package thinks it should use the DC~Typewriter font
143% when it shouldn't.
144%
145% \end{description}
146%
147% \DescribeMacro{\mttfamily}
148% The command \mtt{\\mttfamily} selects the properly-encoded Typewriter
149% font. It's a declaration which works just like the \mtt{\\ttfamily}
150% command, except that comamnds like \mtt{\\\}} and \mtt{\\\_} use the
151% characters from the font rather than choosing odd-looking versions from
152% the maths fonts. All of the accent commands still work properly. In fact,
153% some accent commands which didn't work before have been fixed. For
154% example, saying `\mtt{\\texttt\{P\\'al Erd\\H os\}}' would produce
155% something truly appalling like `\texttt{P\'al Erd\H os}', which is
156% obviously ghastly. The new encoding handles this properly, and produces
157% `\textmtt{P\'al Erd\H os}'.\footnote{
158% This isn't quite perfect. The accent, which isn't actually present in
159% the Typewriter font, is taken from the Computer Modern bold font, but
160% it doesn't look too bad. However, if you pass the option \textsf{t1}
161% to the \package{cmtt} package when you load it, the accent will be taken
162% from the DC~Typewriter font, and it will look totally wonderful.}
163%
164% \DescribeMacro{\textmtt}
165% Font changing commands are much more convenient than th declarations,
166% so a command \mtt{\\textmtt} is provided: it just typesets its argument
167% in the re-encoded Typewriter font.
168%
169% \DescribeMacro{\mtt}
170% Rather more excitingly, the \mtt{\\mtt} command allows you to generate
171% almost-verbatim text very easily, without any of the restrictions of
172% the \mtt{\\verb} command. This command was inspired by something which
173% David Carlisle said to me in an email correspondence regarding the
174% overuse of verbatim commands.
175%
176% \mtt{\\mtt} redefines several `short' commands to typeset the obvious
177% characters. The complete list is shown below: there are some oddities,
178% so watch out.
179%
180% ^^A This is an evil table. See if I care. (This is based on lots of
181% ^^A hacking I did in glyphs.tex, but a good deal less horrible.)
182%
183% \medskip
184% \hbox to \hsize\bgroup
185% \hfil\vbox\bgroup
186% \def\ex#1#2{\strut
187% \enskip
188% \mtt{\\\char`#2}\quad\hfil%
189% \mtt{#2}\enskip}
190% \def\h{\noalign{\hrule}}
191% \def\v{height2pt&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&\cr}
192% \let~\relax
193% \offinterlineskip
194% \ialign\bgroup&\vrule#&\ex#\cr \h\v
195% &~\\&&~\{&&~\}&&~\_&&~\^&\cr \v\h\v
196% &~\$&&~\%&&~\&&&~\#&&~\~&\cr \v\h\v
197% &~\"&&~\'&&~\ &&~\|&&\omit\hfil&\cr \v\h
198% \egroup\egroup
199% \hfil\egroup
200% \medskip
201%
202% As well as redefining these commands, \mtt{\\mtt} will endeavour to make
203% single special characters display themselves in a verbatim-like way. This
204% only works on `active' characters (like \mtt{~}), and \mtt{\\mtt} makes
205% no attempt to change the category codes of any characters.
206%
207% Among other things, you'll probably noticed that several accent-making
208% commands have been redefined. You can still use these accents through
209% the \mtt{\\a} command, by saying \mtt{\\a'}, \mtt{\\a\^} and so on,
210% as in the \env{tabbing} environment.
211%
212% There are also some oddities in the table: \mtt{\|} and \mtt{\"} can be
213% accessed easily without playing with silly commands. Well, that's almost
214% the case: these two characters are both often used as `short' verbatim
215% commands, so they are forced back to their normal meanings so you can
216% type them.
217%
218% Finally, a word on spacing. The \mtt{\\\ } command has been hijacked
219% to produce a funny `visible space' character. You can still produce
220% multiple spaces by saying something like `\mtt{\ \{\}\ \{\}}\dots\mtt{\ }',
221% which is a bit contrived, but that's tough. Also, \mtt{~} has been stolen
222% so that you can type \mtt{~} characters (e.g., in URLs), so the only
223% way you can tpye a nonbreaking space is by using the \mtt{\\nobreakspace}
224% command, which is a bit of a mouthful. There's an abbreviation, though:
225% \mtt{\\nbsp} now means exactly the same thing.
226%
227% Was that not all supremely useful? Oh, just a note: this document doesn't
228% use a single verbatim command or environment (except in the listings,
229% where it's unavoidable) -- it's all done with \mtt{\\mtt}.
230%
231% \implementation
232%
233% \section{Implementation}
234%
235% \subsection{The package}
236%
237% \begin{macrocode}
238%<*sty>
239% \end{macrocode}
240%
241% I'll start with some options handling.
242%
243% \begin{macrocode}
244\newif\ifcmtt@override
245\newif\ifcmtt@dcfonts
246\def\@tempa{T1}\ifx\encodingdefault\@tempa
247 \cmtt@dcfontstrue
248\fi
249\DeclareOption{override}{\cmtt@overridetrue}
250\DeclareOption{t1}{\cmtt@dcfontstrue}
251\DeclareOption{ot1}{\cmtt@dcfontsfalse}
252\ProcessOptions
253% \end{macrocode}
254%
255% This bit is really trivial. I'll just declare the font encoding. Oh, that
256% was easy.
257%
258% \begin{macrocode}
259\DeclareFontEncoding{mTT}{}{}
260% \end{macrocode}
261%
262% Wait: there's a problem. \LaTeX\ will now complain bitterly that it can't
af8e5527 263% find the font \mtt{mTT/cmr/m/n}, which is reasonable, since I haven't
86f6a31e 264% declared any such font. The following line should sort this out,
265%
266% \begin{macrocode}
267\DeclareFontSubstitution{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{n}
268% \end{macrocode}
269%
270% Now I'd better load all the text commands I'll need when in this funny
271% font variant.
272%
273% \begin{macrocode}
af8e5527 274\input{mttenc.def}
86f6a31e 275% \end{macrocode}
276%
277% \begin{macro}{\mttfamily}
278% \begin{macro}{\textmtt}
279%
280% Finally, I'll need to define a command which switches to this funny font,
281% and a \mtt{\\text}\dots\ command for it.
282%
283% \begin{macrocode}
284\DeclareRobustCommand{\mttfamily}{%
285 \fontencoding{mTT}\fontfamily{\ttdefault}\selectfont%
286}
287\DeclareTextFontCommand{\textmtt}{\mttfamily}
288% \end{macrocode}
289%
290% \end{macro}
291% \end{macro}
292%
293% If an override was requested, make \mtt{\\ttfamily} the same as
294% \mtt{\\mttfamily}.
295%
296% \begin{macrocode}
297\ifcmtt@override
298 \let\ttfamily\mttfamily
299\fi
300% \end{macrocode}
301%
302% Well, that's all that's needed for the font definition. Here's a command
303% which will typeset its argument in the typewriter font, allowing easy
304% access to all the funny characters, and printing them properly in the
305% correct font (which \mtt{\\\{} doesn't do, for example).
306%
307% \begin{macro}{\mtt@setchar}
308%
309% This macro assigns the given meaning to the given control sequence. Also,
310% if the character named in the control sequence is currently set active,
311% it will set the active meaning of the character to the same value.
312%
313% \begin{macrocode}
314\def\mtt@setchar#1#2{%
315 \ifx#1#2\chardef#1`#1\else\let#1#2\fi%
316 \ifnum\catcode`#1=13%
317 \begingroup%
318 \lccode`\~=`#1%
319 \lowercase{\endgroup\let~#1}%
320 \fi%
321}
322% \end{macrocode}
323%
324% \end{macro}
325%
326% \begin{macro}{\mtt@chars}
327%
328% This macro lists the various control sequences which should be set up,
329% so that they can be easily added to.
330%
331% \begin{macrocode}
332\def\mtt@chars{%
333 \do\#\#%
334 \do\%\%%
e8e9e5d8 335 \do\&\&%
86f6a31e 336 \do\^\^%
337 \do\~\~%
338 \do\'\textquotesingl%
339 \do\"\textquotedbl%
340 \do\|\textbar%
341 \do\$\textdollar%
342 \do\_\textunderscore%
343 \do\{\textbraceleft%
344 \do\}\textbraceright%
345 \do\\\textbackslash%
346 \do\ \textvisiblespace%
347}
348% \end{macrocode}
349%
350% \end{macro}
351%
352% \begin{macro}{\mtt@do}
353%
354% This just sets up all the special characters listed above. It's a simple
355% abbreviation, really.
356%
357% \begin{macrocode}
358\def\mtt@do{\let\do\mtt@setchar\mtt@chars}
359% \end{macrocode}
360%
361% \end{macro}
362%
363% \begin{macro}{\mtt}
364%
365% And finally, the macro itself. Ta-da!
366%
367% \begin{macrocode}
368\DeclareRobustCommand\mtt[1]{\textmtt{\mtt@do#1}}
369% \end{macrocode}
370%
371% \end{macro}
372%
373% \begin{macro}{\@tabacckludge}
374%
375% The otherwise almost totally perfect \mtt{\\@tabacckludge} gets very
376% upset when its argument is an active character. (If you're wondering,
377% this is the command which is responsible for the behaviour of the \mtt{\\a}
378% command.) Adding a \mtt{\\string} makes everything work perfectly.
379%
380% \begin{macrocode}
381\def\@tabacckludge#1{%
382 \expandafter\@changed@cmd\csname\string#1\endcsname\relax%
383}
384\let\a\@tabacckludge
385% \end{macrocode}
386%
387% \end{macro}
388%
389% \begin{macro}{\nbsp}
390%
391% Make an abbreviation for \mtt{\\nobreakspace}.
392%
393% \begin{macrocode}
394\let\nbsp\nobreakspace
395% \end{macrocode}
396%
397% \end{macro}
398%
399% I think that's all that I have to do for the package. If there's any
400% more to do, I'll add it later.
401%
402% \begin{macrocode}
403%</sty>
404% \end{macrocode}
405%
406%
407% \subsection{The font definition file}
408%
409% This is obviously copied almost verbatim from the file \mtt{OT1cmtt.fd}.
410%
411% \begin{macrocode}
412%<*fd>
413\DeclareFontFamily{mTT}{cmtt}{\hyphenchar\font\m@ne}
414\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{n}{
415 <5> <6> <7> <8> cmtt8
416 <9> cmtt9
417 <10> <10.95> cmtt10
418 <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88> cmtt12
419}{}
420\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{it}{
421 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
422 cmitt10
423}{}
424\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{sl}{
425 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
426 cmsltt10
427}{}
428\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{sc}{
429 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
430 cmtcsc10
431}{}
432\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{ui} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
433\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{n} {<->sub * cmtt/m/n} {}
434\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{it} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
435\DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{ui} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
436%</fd>
437% \end{macrocode}
438%
439%
440% \subsection{The encoding definitions file}
441%
442% I've saved the trickiest bit until last. This file defines the mappings
443% from text commands to glyphs in the font.
444%
445% \begin{macrocode}
446%<*def>
447% \end{macrocode}
448%
449% First for some fun with accents. The |cmtt| font doesn't contain all of
450% the accents which the other Computer Modern fonts do, because those slots
451% contain the standard ASCII characters which usually have to be `borrowed'
452% from the maths fonts.
453%
454% Anyway, there's a load which don't need any special treatment. These are
455% chosen from the \mtt{OT1} encoding by default anyway, so I needn't
456% bother unless I'm really bothered about speed. I'm not, so I'll save
457% the memory.
458%
459% Following the example of the \TeX book, I'll use the bold roman font
460% for accents, so that they don't look really spindly. This is actually
461% remarkably difficult to do, because the \textsf{NFSS} keeps getting in
462% the way. I'll look after the old font name in a macro (it's handy that
463% \textsf{NFSS} maintains this for me) and change to a known font, do the
464% accent, change font back again, do the argument to the accent, and then
465% close the group I did all of this in, so that no-one else notices what a
466% naughty chap I am, really. This is startlingly evil.
467%
468% \begin{macrocode}
469\def\cmtt@accent#1#2{{%
470 \let\@old@font\font@name%
471 \ifcmtt@dcfonts%
472 \fontencoding{T1}\selectfont%
473 \else%
474 \usefont{OT1}{cmr}{bx}{n}%
475 \fi%
476 #1{\@old@font#2}%
477}}
478% \end{macrocode}
479%
480% And now for the actual offending accents.
481%
482% \begin{macrocode}
483\DeclareTextCommand{\H}{mTT}{\cmtt@accent\H}
484\DeclareTextCommand{\.}{mTT}{\cmtt@accent\.}
485% \end{macrocode}
486%
487% The `under' accents are all OK, so I shan't bother to define them either.
488% Similarly, lots of the text symbol commands are fine as they are by
489% default and I don't need to try and define them again.
490%
491% This, then, is the remaining commands which really need sorting out.
492% (By the way, the only reason I've redefined \mtt{\\textellipsis} is
493% because otherwise it will mess up the nice monospacing.)
494%
495% \begin{macrocode}
496\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbackslash}{mTT}{92}
497\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbar}{mTT}{124}
498\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbraceleft}{mTT}{123}
499\DeclareTextSymbol{\textbraceright}{mTT}{125}
500\DeclareTextSymbol{\textless}{mTT}{60}
501\DeclareTextSymbol{\textgreater}{mTT}{62}
502\DeclareTextSymbol{\textunderscore}{mTT}{95}
503\DeclareTextSymbol{\textvisiblespace}{mTT}{32}
504\DeclareTextCommand{\textellipsis}{mTT}{...}
505\DeclareTextSymbol{\textquotedbl}{mTT}{34}
506\DeclareTextSymbol{\textquotesingl}{mTT}{13}
507% \end{macrocode}
508%
509% That's all there is. Please return to your homes.
510%
511% \Finale
512%
513\endinput