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In article <l8vi6nINNcvc@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:
> In article <1992Aug16.144136.779@cnedcu51.bitnet>, iffuhrer@cnedcu51.bitnet writes:
> |> Dear TeX Gurus

> |> Could someone explain me how to set \oldstyle numbers as default for a whole
> |> document. (a style in the \documentstyle command ?)

> In text mode there is no simple way to do this, other than
> to make all them digits into active characters:

Victor, Victor, Victor...

The "simple, good" way to do this is through virtual font
remappings of digits from cmmi to replace those in cmr, cmmib for
cmbx, with some work to deal with slanted fonts. The lining
figures should be placed in the mathfonts and the mathcodes for
digits modified appropriately (since lining figures are more
appropriate for mathematical typesetting). Generating the VFs can
be a bit of work, but it will give one more traditional
typesetting. 

By the way, oldstyle digits and true small caps are becoming
available for increasing numbers of Type 1 fonts and this
approach becomes even more useful in those circumstances.

-dh