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+0news.txt -- changes to Malvern between releases -- -*-text-*-
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+RELEASE 1.2 -- CHANGES SINCE MALVERN 1.1
+
+All file names are now compatible with MS-DOS/ISO 9960
+
+ All files have names fitting in the 8+3 straightjacket required
+ by stupid MS-DOS and ISO 9960 filesystems. I was about 12 or 13
+ when I worked out for myself that trying to identify data with
+ eight-capital-letter names was a dumb idea; too bad ISO didn't
+ consult me.
+
+ One side effect is that the capital-letter file names
+ traditional on UNIX systems for important installation files
+ (README, INSTALL, COPYING, NEWS) have been changed to
+ 00readme.txt, 0install.txt, 0copying.txt, 0news.txt for the sake
+ of MS-DOS and VMS sufferers.
+
+Abandoned standard font names
+
+ As of October 1994, the font names standard does not allow more
+ than two variant letters without breaking the eight-character
+ limit for MS-DOS and ISO 9960 file names. Variants includes
+ encodings and things like whether the font is slanted. As an
+ extreme example, Malvern 58 with the caps-&-small-caps,
+ old-style-numerals variation on the OT1 encoding is
+ fmvr9ci7tc12! My best temporary solution to this situation is
+ to abandon "fmv" names altogether and extend the "ma" names to
+ include the encoding schemes needed by plain TeX, plain LaTeX
+ and LaTeX 2e. Therefore, *all* Malvern fonts now have names
+ starting with "ma".
+
+Standardized encoding scheme numbers
+
+ Now I have been forced toi come up with a set of 2-letter
+ encoding codes for every encoding under the sun, I use
+ encoding=19 for TeX Text instead of 0.
+
+pdc 1994.10.11
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+RELEASE 1.1 -- CHANGES SINCE MALVERN 1.0.02
+
+
+Better documentation
+
+ A lot of the excess verbiage is irrelevant and has been enclosed
+ in \iflong...\fi. At the same time the sections on installation
+ and such have been rewritten or expanded. There is a separate
+ installation guide (install.dvi) which uses no nonstandard
+ fonts.
+
+Support for LaTeX 2.09 and LaTeX 2e
+
+ I have included style options that should work with LaTeX 2.09
+ (either with or without NFSS), as well as LaTeX-2e FD files.
+ The 2e file includes support for small capitals (but not italic
+ small capitals, because NFSS 2 has no way to refer to them).
+ All of these are generated by the same script that generates the
+ fonts, so they should match the supplied fonts.
+
+Macro file changed from "malvern.tex" to "maamac.tex"
+
+ The name "maamac" is more "standard" in that it ends with "mac"
+ (as many plain TeX macro files do) and starts with "maa" (as
+ most Malvern-A-related files do). It leaves open the
+ possibility of a "magmac.tex" file for Malvern G, and so on.
+
+Macro files used in documentation renamed
+
+ The macro files I used to format plain-TeX documents have been
+ renamed so that they all start with "pdc" and are valid ISO-9960
+ names.
+
+Files for fontinst
+
+ There are ETX and MTX files included for making T1-encoded fonts
+ from.
+
+Driver files, TFM and VF files included
+
+ A set of driver (.mf) files and TFM and VF files have been
+ included, generated using "mff" and Alan Jeffrey's fontinst
+ package. These come in three main groups:
+
+ (1) OT1 (the encoding shown in App.F of the TeXbook) and T1
+ (Cork) fonts, all with names starting in "fmv" (such as
+ fmvmq12, fmvm9r12);
+ (2) Malvern-encoded fonts, used to make the T1 fonts and
+ those of the OT1 fonts that include small caps, with
+ names starting with "ma" (such as ma55a12); and
+ (3) some other Malvern-encoded fonts included as examples
+ (such as ma55g11).
+
+ All of the fonts in group (1) are composite fonts (VFs), except
+ for the OT1 fonts without small caps. It follows that systems
+ without the ability to use VFs will not be able to use T1 fonts.
+
+Cyrillic letters
+
+ The Cyrillic alphabet is still very incomplete, and some of the
+ glyph designs need revision.
+
+Composites-only font in limbo
+
+ The previous release had a half-baked composite-letters-only
+ encoding, Malvern C. This letter has now been used for Cyrillic
+ instead, and eventually Malvern E will be some sort of
+ composite-letter font. Since the Fontinst package makes
+ pre-built composites largely redundant, I don't expect this font
+ to be used for anything much unless I come up with new ideas on
+ designing composite letters.
+
+Encodings schemes
+
+ Only uses Malvern encodings
+
+ The Malvern programs no longer make any attempt to support any
+ font encodings other than Malvern A, B, ... and the CMR encoding
+ described in the TeXbook (now called OT1). This is because (a)
+ trying to support Cork & other encoding vectors was getting to
+ be a great pain even without including support for
+ caps-and-small-caps variants and (b) all this can be better done
+ using Alan Jeffrey's fontinst package.
+
+ Changes to some Malvern encodings
+
+ Malvern B no longer includes Greek or Cyrillic letters -- these
+ have their own encodings, Malvern G and C. Malvern B contains a
+ selection of symbols etc. and includes the glyphs needed to make
+ Cork, Adobe and ISO-8859-1 fonts.
+
+Replaced and mended glyph programs
+
+ Letters A and E with Ogonek redesigned
+
+ The new designs for "A" and "a" have the ogonek mark drawn as a
+ continuation of the last stroke of the letter. I don't know if
+ this is more "authentic" or not...
+
+ Figures don't turn absurd then compressed or expanded.
+
+ Curves have more intermediate points, and the ones with circular
+ rings (8, 6, 9) behave more intelligently when there isn't
+ enough space to use circular circles.
+
+ Curves generally made more robust
+
+ Many curves used to turn angular when compressed; most such
+ curves now use a macro that draws them as a quarter-superelipse.
+
+pdc 1994.07.29
+
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+RELEASE 1.0, PATCH 02 -- CHANGES SINCE MALVERN 1.0.01
+
+Added a new encoding G (Greek)
+
+ Designed lower case Greek letters and composite letters, and
+ made a new Malvern encoding G. This uses similar ligature
+ conventions to GreekTeX to generate fully marked up Greek text
+ using ligatures like a| for alpha with iota subscript and <'h
+ for eta-lenis-acute.
+
+
+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+RELEASE 1.0, PATCH 01 -- CHANGES SINCE MALVERN 1.0
+
+
+Fixed the letter L
+
+ The width was wrong.
+