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diff --git a/info/fontname/html/History.html b/info/fontname/html/History.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3eacefcd22 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/fontname/html/History.html @@ -0,0 +1,121 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<html> +<!-- This document is in the public domain and may be used freely. --> +<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.0, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> +<head> +<title>Filenames for TeX fonts: History</title> + +<meta name="description" content="Filenames for TeX fonts: History"> +<meta name="keywords" content="Filenames for TeX fonts: History"> +<meta name="resource-type" content="document"> +<meta name="distribution" content="global"> +<meta name="Generator" content="makeinfo"> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> +<link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top"> +<link href="General-index.html#General-index" rel="index" title="General index"> +<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> +<link href="Introduction.html#Introduction" rel="up" title="Introduction"> +<link href="References.html#References" rel="next" title="References"> +<link href="Introduction.html#Introduction" rel="prev" title="Introduction"> +<style type="text/css"> +<!-- +a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} +blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} +blockquote.smallindentedblock {margin-right: 0em; font-size: smaller} +blockquote.smallquotation {font-size: smaller} +div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.lisp {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.smalldisplay {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.smallexample {margin-left: 3.2em} +div.smalllisp {margin-left: 3.2em} +kbd {font-style: oblique} +pre.display {font-family: inherit} +pre.format {font-family: inherit} +pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} +pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} +pre.smalldisplay {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} +pre.smallexample {font-size: smaller} +pre.smallformat {font-family: inherit; font-size: smaller} +pre.smalllisp {font-size: smaller} +span.nocodebreak {white-space: nowrap} +span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} +span.roman {font-family: serif; font-weight: normal} +span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} +ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} +--> +</style> + + +</head> + +<body lang="en"> +<a name="History"></a> +<div class="header"> +<p> +Next: <a href="References.html#References" accesskey="n" rel="next">References</a>, Up: <a href="Introduction.html#Introduction" accesskey="u" rel="up">Introduction</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="General-index.html#General-index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> +<hr> +<a name="History-1"></a> +<h3 class="section">1.1 History</h3> + +<a name="index-history"></a> + +<a name="index-Mittelbach_002c-Frank"></a> +<a name="index-Schoepf_002c-Rainer"></a> +<p>The original inspiration for Fontname was Frank Mittelbach and Rainer +Schoepf’s article in <cite>TUGboat</cite> 11(2) (June 1990), which led to my +article in <cite>TUGboat</cite> 11(4) (November 1990), pages 512–519. +Mittelbach wrote another article criticizing the scheme below in +<cite>TUGboat</cite> 13(1) (April 1992), pages 51–53; most of his points are +well-taken, but I saw no alternative then, and see no alternative now. +Others of his points are addressed in the appropriate sections below. +</p> +<a name="index-Fontname-version-2"></a> +<p>In August 1995, Fontname version 2 was released, concomitantly with a new +release of the PostScript fonts for use with LaTeX and Dvips. After +several years of experience, several modifications of the original +distribution seemed desirable: more precise specification of encodings +(see <a href="Variants.html#Variants">Variants</a>); machine-readable mapping files (the <samp>*.map</samp> +files in the distribution) and standardizing directory names as well as +font filenames (included in <samp>supplier.map</samp> and +<samp>typeface.map</samp>). +</p> +<p>In Fontname version 1, some encoding variant characters (‘<samp>0</samp>’, +‘<samp>2</samp>’, etc.) have been reassigned to a ‘<samp>7</samp>’ or ‘<samp>8</samp>’ sequence +(see <a href="Variants.html#Variants">Variants</a>). Although this is an incompatible change, the +advantages of (1) consistency in naming encoding variants, and (2) +having some free variants makes it worthwhile. Also, not so +coincidentally, new metrics for PostScript fonts in the Cork encoding +were issued—same encoding, different metrics. So a new name served a +practical purpose as well. +</p> +<a name="index-contributors"></a> +<a name="index-Beebe_002c-Nelson"></a> +<a name="index-Beeton_002c-Barbara"></a> +<a name="index-Bernstein_002c-Rocky"></a> +<a name="index-Bouche_002c-Thierry"></a> +<a name="index-Cugley_002c-Damian"></a> +<a name="index-Horn_002c-Berthol"></a> +<a name="index-Jeffrey_002c-Alan"></a> +<a name="index-Lang_002c-Russell"></a> +<a name="index-MacKay_002c-Pierre"></a> +<a name="index-Rahtz_002c-Sebastian"></a> +<a name="index-Rivlin_002c-Jean"></a> +<a name="index-Rokicki_002c-Tom"></a> +<p>Many people have contributed to this work. In particular, I gratefully +acknowledge Nelson Beebe, Barbara Beeton, Rocky Bernstein, Thierry Bouche, +Damian Cugley, Berthold K.P. Horn, Alan Jeffrey, Russell Lang, Pierre +MacKay, Sebastian Rahtz, Jean Rivlin, and Tom Rokicki. +</p> + +<hr> +<div class="header"> +<p> +Next: <a href="References.html#References" accesskey="n" rel="next">References</a>, Up: <a href="Introduction.html#Introduction" accesskey="u" rel="up">Introduction</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="General-index.html#General-index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> +</div> + + + +</body> +</html> |