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3 %% cmtt package -- nicer handling of the Computer Modern Typewriter font
4 %% Copyright (c) 1996 Mark Wooding
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22 %
23 % \begin{meta-comment} <Package preambles>
24 %<+sty>\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}
25 %<+sty>\ProvidesPackage{cmtt}
26 %<+fd>\ProvidesFile{mttcmtt.fd}
27 %<+def>\ProvidesFile{mttcmtt.def}
28 %<+sty|fd|def> [1996/05/25 1.1 Handing of the cmtt font]
29 % \end{meta-comment}
30 %
31 % \CheckSum{174}
32 %% \CharacterTable
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37 %% Dollar \$ Percent \% Ampersand \&
38 %% Acute accent \' Left paren \( Right paren \)
39 %% Asterisk \* Plus \+ Comma \,
40 %% Minus \- Point \. Solidus \/
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47 %%
48 %
49 % \begin{meta-comment}
50 %
51 %<*driver>
52 \input{mdwtools}
53 \describespackage{cmtt}
54 \mdwdoc
55 %</driver>
56 %
57 % \end{meta-comment}
58 %
59 %^^A-------------------------------------------------------------------------
60 % \section{Introductory note}
61 %
62 % \LaTeX\ has a rather cunning encoding handling system, which makes funny
63 % commands like accents work properly independent of the current font's
64 % actual layout. While this works rather well most of the time, the standard
65 % \mtt{tt} font has been rather left out of things. \LaTeX\ assumes that
66 % the Computer Modern Typewriter fonts have exactly the same layout as the
67 % more normal Computer Modern Roman family (i.e., that both conform to the
68 % \mtt{OT1} encoding). This plainly isn't true, since the Typewriter font
69 % contains a bunch of standard ASCII characters which are omitted from the
70 % standard Computer Modern fonts, such as curly braces \mtt{\{} and \mtt{\}},
71 % and the backslash \mtt{\\}; these are usually dug up from the maths fonts,
72 % which looks fine in normal text, but looks really odd in monospace text.
73 % Compare `\texttt{\textbackslash begin\{document\}}' to
74 % `\mtt{\\begin\{document\}}', for example.
75 %
76 % There are two possibilities for dealing with this problem. One is to use
77 % the \mtt{\\verb} command, which works since all the extra characters in
78 % the Typewriter font are in the correct places, or use the DC~fonts, which
79 % have a proper encoding set up which contains all of these special
80 % characters anyway.
81 %
82 % Neither of these solutions is perfect. Using \mtt{\\verb} causes all
83 % manner of little niggly problems: you can't use it in footnotes or
84 % section headings, for example. (There are of course workarounds for this
85 % sort of thing: the author's \package{footnote} package provides a
86 % \env{footnote} environment which will allow verbatim text, and verbatim
87 % text in section headings can be achieved if one is sufficiently
88 % \TeX nical.) Using the DC~fonts is fine, although you actually lose a
89 % glyph or two. As far as the author is aware, the character \mtt{\'} (an
90 % `unsexed' single quote) is not present in the \mtt{T1}-encoded version of
91 % Computer Modern Typewriter, although it is hidden away in the original
92 % version. The author has found a need for this character in computer
93 % listings, and was horrified to discover that it was replaced by a German
94 % single quote character (\mtt{\\quotesinglbase}).
95 %
96 % This package defines a special encoding for the Computer Modern Typewriter
97 % font, so that documents can take advantage of its ASCII characters without
98 % resorting to verbatim text. (The main advantage of the DC~fonts, that
99 % words containing accents can be hyohenated, doesn't really apply to the
100 % Typewriter font, since it doesn't allow hyphenation by default anyway.)
101 %
102 % There are several files you'll need to create:
103 % \begin{description} \setdescriptionlabel{\mttfamily#1}
104 %
105 % \item [cmtt.sty] tells \LaTeX\ that there's a new encoding. It also
106 % provides some options for customising some aspects of the
107 % encoding, and defines some useful commands.
108 %
109 % \item [mttenc.def] describes the encoding to \LaTeX: it sets up all the
110 % appropriate text commands so that they produce beautiful results.
111 %
112 % \item [mttcmtt.fd] describes the re-encoded version of the font. this
113 % is more or less a copy of the file \mtt{ot1cmtt.fd}.
114 %
115 % \end{description}
116 %
117 % The package accepts some options which may be useful:
118 % \begin{description} \setdescriptionlabel{\sffamily#1}
119 %
120 % \item [override] overrides the meaning of the \mtt{\\ttfamily} command
121 % (and therefore also the \mtt{\\texttt} command too), making it the
122 % same as the new \mtt{\\mttfamily} command. This isn't the default
123 % just in case the change breaks something in an unexpected way.
124 %
125 % \item [t1] informs the package that you're using the \mtt{T1} encoding,
126 % and therefore can borrow some accented characters from the DC~version
127 % of Computer Modern Typewriter. This will probably be unnecessary,
128 % since the package attempts to work out what to do all by itself.
129 %
130 % \item [ot1] forces the package \emph{not} to use the DC~version of the
131 % Computer Modern Typewriter font for funny accents. Only use this
132 % option if the package thinks it should use the DC~Typewriter font
133 % when it shouldn't.
134 %
135 % \end{description}
136 %
137 % \DescribeMacro{\mttfamily}
138 % The command \mtt{\\mttfamily} selects the properly-encoded Typewriter
139 % font. It's a declaration which works just like the \mtt{\\ttfamily}
140 % command, except that comamnds like \mtt{\\\}} and \mtt{\\\_} use the
141 % characters from the font rather than choosing odd-looking versions from
142 % the maths fonts. All of the accent commands still work properly. In fact,
143 % some accent commands which didn't work before have been fixed. For
144 % example, saying `\mtt{\\texttt\{P\\'al Erd\\H os\}}' would produce
145 % something truly appalling like `\texttt{P\'al Erd\H os}', which is
146 % obviously ghastly. The new encoding handles this properly, and produces
147 % `\textmtt{P\'al Erd\H os}'.\footnote{
148 % This isn't quite perfect. The accent, which isn't actually present in
149 % the Typewriter font, is taken from the Computer Modern bold font, but
150 % it doesn't look too bad. However, if you pass the option \textsf{t1}
151 % to the \package{cmtt} package when you load it, the accent will be taken
152 % from the DC~Typewriter font, and it will look totally wonderful.}
153 %
154 % \DescribeMacro{\textmtt}
155 % Font changing commands are much more convenient than th declarations,
156 % so a command \mtt{\\textmtt} is provided: it just typesets its argument
157 % in the re-encoded Typewriter font.
158 %
159 % \DescribeMacro{\mtt}
160 % Rather more excitingly, the \mtt{\\mtt} command allows you to generate
161 % almost-verbatim text very easily, without any of the restrictions of
162 % the \mtt{\\verb} command. This command was inspired by something which
163 % David Carlisle said to me in an email correspondence regarding the
164 % overuse of verbatim commands.
165 %
166 % \mtt{\\mtt} redefines several `short' commands to typeset the obvious
167 % characters. The complete list is shown below: there are some oddities,
168 % so watch out.
169 %
170 % ^^A This is an evil table. See if I care. (This is based on lots of
171 % ^^A hacking I did in glyphs.tex, but a good deal less horrible.)
172 %
173 % \medskip
174 % \hbox to \hsize\bgroup
175 % \hfil\vbox\bgroup
176 % \def\ex#1#2{\strut
177 % \enskip
178 % \mtt{\\\char`#2}\quad\hfil%
179 % \mtt{#2}\enskip}
180 % \def\h{\noalign{\hrule}}
181 % \def\v{height2pt&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&&\omit&\cr}
182 % \let~\relax
183 % \offinterlineskip
184 % \ialign\bgroup&\vrule#&\ex#\cr \h\v
185 % &~\\&&~\{&&~\}&&~\_&&~\^&\cr \v\h\v
186 % &~\$&&~\%&&~\&&&~\#&&~\~&\cr \v\h\v
187 % &~\"&&~\'&&~\ &&~\|&&\omit\hfil&\cr \v\h
188 % \egroup\egroup
189 % \hfil\egroup
190 % \medskip
191 %
192 % As well as redefining these commands, \mtt{\\mtt} will endeavour to make
193 % single special characters display themselves in a verbatim-like way. This
194 % only works on `active' characters (like \mtt{~}), and \mtt{\\mtt} makes
195 % no attempt to change the category codes of any characters.
196 %
197 % Among other things, you'll probably noticed that several accent-making
198 % commands have been redefined. You can still use these accents through
199 % the \mtt{\\a} command, by saying \mtt{\\a'}, \mtt{\\a\^} and so on,
200 % as in the \env{tabbing} environment.
201 %
202 % There are also some oddities in the table: \mtt{\|} and \mtt{\"} can be
203 % accessed easily without playing with silly commands. Well, that's almost
204 % the case: these two characters are both often used as `short' verbatim
205 % commands, so they are forced back to their normal meanings so you can
206 % type them.
207 %
208 % Finally, a word on spacing. The \mtt{\\\ } command has been hijacked
209 % to produce a funny `visible space' character. You can still produce
210 % multiple spaces by saying something like `\mtt{\ \{\}\ \{\}}\dots\mtt{\ }',
211 % which is a bit contrived, but that's tough. Also, \mtt{~} has been stolen
212 % so that you can type \mtt{~} characters (e.g., in URLs), so the only
213 % way you can tpye a nonbreaking space is by using the \mtt{\\nobreakspace}
214 % command, which is a bit of a mouthful. There's an abbreviation, though:
215 % \mtt{\\nbsp} now means exactly the same thing.
216 %
217 % Was that not all supremely useful? Oh, just a note: this document doesn't
218 % use a single verbatim command or environment (except in the listings,
219 % where it's unavoidable) -- it's all done with \mtt{\\mtt}.
220 %
221 % \implementation
222 %
223 % \section{Implementation}
224 %
225 % \subsection{The package}
226 %
227 % \begin{macrocode}
228 %<*sty>
229 % \end{macrocode}
230 %
231 % I'll start with some options handling.
232 %
233 % \begin{macrocode}
234 \newif\ifcmtt@override
235 \newif\ifcmtt@dcfonts
236 \def\@tempa{T1}\ifx\encodingdefault\@tempa
237 \cmtt@dcfontstrue
238 \fi
239 \DeclareOption{override}{\cmtt@overridetrue}
240 \DeclareOption{t1}{\cmtt@dcfontstrue}
241 \DeclareOption{ot1}{\cmtt@dcfontsfalse}
242 \ProcessOptions
243 % \end{macrocode}
244 %
245 % This bit is really trivial. I'll just declare the font encoding. Oh, that
246 % was easy.
247 %
248 % \begin{macrocode}
249 \DeclareFontEncoding{mTT}{}{}
250 % \end{macrocode}
251 %
252 % Wait: there's a problem. \LaTeX\ will now complain bitterly that it can't
253 % find the font \mtt{mTT/cmr/m/n}, which is reasonable, since I haven't
254 % declared any such font. The following line should sort this out,
255 %
256 % \begin{macrocode}
257 \DeclareFontSubstitution{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{n}
258 % \end{macrocode}
259 %
260 % Now I'd better load all the text commands I'll need when in this funny
261 % font variant.
262 %
263 % \begin{macrocode}
264 \input{mttenc.def}
265 % \end{macrocode}
266 %
267 % \begin{macro}{\mttfamily}
268 % \begin{macro}{\textmtt}
269 %
270 % Finally, I'll need to define a command which switches to this funny font,
271 % and a \mtt{\\text}\dots\ command for it.
272 %
273 % \begin{macrocode}
274 \DeclareRobustCommand{\mttfamily}{%
275 \fontencoding{mTT}\fontfamily{\ttdefault}\selectfont%
276 }
277 \DeclareTextFontCommand{\textmtt}{\mttfamily}
278 % \end{macrocode}
279 %
280 % \end{macro}
281 % \end{macro}
282 %
283 % If an override was requested, make \mtt{\\ttfamily} the same as
284 % \mtt{\\mttfamily}.
285 %
286 % \begin{macrocode}
287 \ifcmtt@override
288 \let\ttfamily\mttfamily
289 \fi
290 % \end{macrocode}
291 %
292 % Well, that's all that's needed for the font definition. Here's a command
293 % which will typeset its argument in the typewriter font, allowing easy
294 % access to all the funny characters, and printing them properly in the
295 % correct font (which \mtt{\\\{} doesn't do, for example).
296 %
297 % \begin{macro}{\mtt@setchar}
298 %
299 % This macro assigns the given meaning to the given control sequence. Also,
300 % if the character named in the control sequence is currently set active,
301 % it will set the active meaning of the character to the same value.
302 %
303 % \begin{macrocode}
304 \def\mtt@setchar#1#2{%
305 \ifx#1#2\chardef#1`#1\else\let#1#2\fi%
306 \ifnum\catcode`#1=13%
307 \begingroup%
308 \lccode`\~=`#1%
309 \lowercase{\endgroup\let~#1}%
310 \fi%
311 }
312 % \end{macrocode}
313 %
314 % \end{macro}
315 %
316 % \begin{macro}{\mtt@chars}
317 %
318 % This macro lists the various control sequences which should be set up,
319 % so that they can be easily added to.
320 %
321 % \begin{macrocode}
322 \def\mtt@chars{%
323 \do\#\#%
324 \do\%\%%
325 \do\&\&%
326 \do\^\^%
327 \do\~\~%
328 \do\'\textquotesingl%
329 \do\"\textquotedbl%
330 \do\|\textbar%
331 \do\$\textdollar%
332 \do\_\textunderscore%
333 \do\{\textbraceleft%
334 \do\}\textbraceright%
335 \do\\\textbackslash%
336 \do\ \textvisiblespace%
337 }
338 % \end{macrocode}
339 %
340 % \end{macro}
341 %
342 % \begin{macro}{\mtt@do}
343 %
344 % This just sets up all the special characters listed above. It's a simple
345 % abbreviation, really.
346 %
347 % \begin{macrocode}
348 \def\mtt@do{\let\do\mtt@setchar\mtt@chars}
349 % \end{macrocode}
350 %
351 % \end{macro}
352 %
353 % \begin{macro}{\mtt}
354 %
355 % And finally, the macro itself. Ta-da!
356 %
357 % \begin{macrocode}
358 \DeclareRobustCommand\mtt[1]{\textmtt{\mtt@do#1}}
359 % \end{macrocode}
360 %
361 % \end{macro}
362 %
363 % \begin{macro}{\@tabacckludge}
364 %
365 % The otherwise almost totally perfect \mtt{\\@tabacckludge} gets very
366 % upset when its argument is an active character. (If you're wondering,
367 % this is the command which is responsible for the behaviour of the \mtt{\\a}
368 % command.) Adding a \mtt{\\string} makes everything work perfectly.
369 %
370 % \begin{macrocode}
371 \def\@tabacckludge#1{%
372 \expandafter\@changed@cmd\csname\string#1\endcsname\relax%
373 }
374 \let\a\@tabacckludge
375 % \end{macrocode}
376 %
377 % \end{macro}
378 %
379 % \begin{macro}{\nbsp}
380 %
381 % Make an abbreviation for \mtt{\\nobreakspace}.
382 %
383 % \begin{macrocode}
384 \let\nbsp\nobreakspace
385 % \end{macrocode}
386 %
387 % \end{macro}
388 %
389 % I think that's all that I have to do for the package. If there's any
390 % more to do, I'll add it later.
391 %
392 % \begin{macrocode}
393 %</sty>
394 % \end{macrocode}
395 %
396 %
397 % \subsection{The font definition file}
398 %
399 % This is obviously copied almost verbatim from the file \mtt{OT1cmtt.fd}.
400 %
401 % \begin{macrocode}
402 %<*fd>
403 \DeclareFontFamily{mTT}{cmtt}{\hyphenchar\font\m@ne}
404 \DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{n}{
405 <5> <6> <7> <8> cmtt8
406 <9> cmtt9
407 <10> <10.95> cmtt10
408 <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88> cmtt12
409 }{}
410 \DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{it}{
411 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
412 cmitt10
413 }{}
414 \DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{sl}{
415 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
416 cmsltt10
417 }{}
418 \DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{sc}{
419 <5> <6> <7> <8> <9> <10> <10.95> <12> <14.4> <17.28> <20.74> <24.88>
420 cmtcsc10
421 }{}
422 \DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{m}{ui} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
423 \DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{n} {<->sub * cmtt/m/n} {}
424 \DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{it} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
425 \DeclareFontShape{mTT}{cmtt}{bx}{ui} {<->sub * cmtt/m/it} {}
426 %</fd>
427 % \end{macrocode}
428 %
429 %
430 % \subsection{The encoding definitions file}
431 %
432 % I've saved the trickiest bit until last. This file defines the mappings
433 % from text commands to glyphs in the font.
434 %
435 % \begin{macrocode}
436 %<*def>
437 % \end{macrocode}
438 %
439 % First for some fun with accents. The |cmtt| font doesn't contain all of
440 % the accents which the other Computer Modern fonts do, because those slots
441 % contain the standard ASCII characters which usually have to be `borrowed'
442 % from the maths fonts.
443 %
444 % Anyway, there's a load which don't need any special treatment. These are
445 % chosen from the \mtt{OT1} encoding by default anyway, so I needn't
446 % bother unless I'm really bothered about speed. I'm not, so I'll save
447 % the memory.
448 %
449 % Following the example of the \TeX book, I'll use the bold roman font
450 % for accents, so that they don't look really spindly. This is actually
451 % remarkably difficult to do, because the \textsf{NFSS} keeps getting in
452 % the way. I'll look after the old font name in a macro (it's handy that
453 % \textsf{NFSS} maintains this for me) and change to a known font, do the
454 % accent, change font back again, do the argument to the accent, and then
455 % close the group I did all of this in, so that no-one else notices what a
456 % naughty chap I am, really. This is startlingly evil.
457 %
458 % \begin{macrocode}
459 \def\cmtt@accent#1#2{{%
460 \let\@old@font\font@name%
461 \ifcmtt@dcfonts%
462 \fontencoding{T1}\selectfont%
463 \else%
464 \usefont{OT1}{cmr}{bx}{n}%
465 \fi%
466 #1{\@old@font#2}%
467 }}
468 % \end{macrocode}
469 %
470 % And now for the actual offending accents.
471 %
472 % \begin{macrocode}
473 \DeclareTextCommand{\H}{mTT}{\cmtt@accent\H}
474 \DeclareTextCommand{\.}{mTT}{\cmtt@accent\.}
475 % \end{macrocode}
476 %
477 % The `under' accents are all OK, so I shan't bother to define them either.
478 % Similarly, lots of the text symbol commands are fine as they are by
479 % default and I don't need to try and define them again.
480 %
481 % This, then, is the remaining commands which really need sorting out.
482 % (By the way, the only reason I've redefined \mtt{\\textellipsis} is
483 % because otherwise it will mess up the nice monospacing.)
484 %
485 % \begin{macrocode}
486 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textbackslash}{mTT}{92}
487 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textbar}{mTT}{124}
488 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textbraceleft}{mTT}{123}
489 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textbraceright}{mTT}{125}
490 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textless}{mTT}{60}
491 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textgreater}{mTT}{62}
492 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textunderscore}{mTT}{95}
493 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textvisiblespace}{mTT}{32}
494 \DeclareTextCommand{\textellipsis}{mTT}{...}
495 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textquotedbl}{mTT}{34}
496 \DeclareTextSymbol{\textquotesingl}{mTT}{13}
497 % \end{macrocode}
498 %
499 % That's all there is. Please return to your homes.
500 %
501 % \Finale
502 %
503 \endinput