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diff --git a/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/patched-pfb/NOTICE b/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/patched-pfb/NOTICE new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..55fbb4f5b1 --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/patched-pfb/NOTICE @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.95.961127112007.2046A-100000@hpslap03.cern.ch> +Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 11:49:50 +0100 +From: "J. Scott Berg" <Scott.Berg@CERN.CH> +Subject: CTAN Submission -- Fix for Bakoma fonts + +I have uploaded a file newbakoma.tar.gz to ftp.tex.ac.uk:/incoming. + +It contains the files + +cmbsy10.pfb cmbsy8.pfb cmsy5.pfb cmsy8.pfb +cmbsy6.pfb cmbsy9.pfb cmsy6.pfb cmsy9.pfb +cmbsy7.pfb cmsy10.pfb cmsy7.pfb + +which unpack into a directory newbakoma/. + +It's purpose is to provide a simple solution to a known +problem--square roots when using the Bakoma fonts get chopped off at +the knees. I did nothing particularly original--I just followed the +advice from the following news article (found using Deja News): + +> Subject: Re: Square root with Bakoma fonts +> From: jhertzli@ix.netcom.com(Joseph Hertzlinger) +> Date: 1996/05/12 +> Message-Id: <4n3gj5$g55@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> +> Newsgroups: comp.text.tex +> +> In <Dr74pJ.KA9@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> lk3a@cars.mech.Virginia.EDU +> (Count Dracula) writes: +> +> >The square root symbol in Bakoma fonts comes out chopped. +> >Has anyone devised a workaround to this? +> +> The square roots in the symbol fonts (cmsy* and cmbsy*) in +> /fonts/postscript/bakoma/pfb in some TeX archives has a bounding box +> which is too small +> +> The square roots in the symbol fonts in /fonts/postscript/cm (at least +> at SHSU and also the Walnut Creek CDROM) will not be chopped. +> +> Alternatively you can try editing the BBox array in each font using a +> hex editor. (The second value should be about -999.) + +The unchopped fonts referred to seem to have fallen off the face of +CTAN, so I figured I'd provide corrected ones. + +I took the -999 literally; somebody who actually knows what they're +doing could probably make a tighter bounding box. Note that you don't +even need a hex editor to do this--I just edited the 'FontBBox' +comment, which is in plaintext. Maybe I should have changed something +else, but this seemed to be sufficient to get things working. Let me +reiterate I have no clue what I'm doing--I just applied a simple fix +which seems to work. I'd welcome anyone who knows what's going on to +provide a better solution. + +I would suggest replacing Basil's version of these fonts in +fonts/cm/ps-type1/bakoma/pfb with the corrected files, and renaming +his to <file>.orig. + +Note I've only fixed the pfb files; the other formats should probably +be updated as well (?), but I lack the facilities and knowledge to do +so. + +A big thanks to Basil for making these things in the first place, Deja +News for preventing information from falling off the end of the net, +and the CTAN folks for organizing all the TeX stuff... + + -Scott Berg + +-- +J. Scott Berg email: Scott.Berg@cern.ch +Work Phone: (41-22-)767-94-67 Real mail: CERN; SL Division; Bldg 30-2002 + CH-1211 Geneva 23; Switzerland |