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+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
+
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