The document discusses the concepts behind, and the restrictions that affect LaTeX's use of font encodings. The document also lists several extant ‘recognised’ encodings, giving glyph tables for them.

Part of a set of documentation that also covers , , , , and .

The authors are The LaTeX Team and Werner Lemberg. The package is Copyright © 1995-1997,2005,2006 The LaTeX3 Project, Frank Mittelbach, Robin Fairbairns and Werner Lemberg.