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+This directory contains TeX support for many
+PostScript fonts. Please send any questions, comments, or suggestions
+to tex-fonts@math.utah.edu. (Email tex-fonts-request@math.utah.edu to
+join the list.)
+
+These files replace both the old LaTeX PSNFSS and dvips fonts. Both of
+these packages contained virtual fonts which more or less mimicked the
+original TeX text encoding, and (in the case of PSNFSS) the Cork
+encoding. However, the two packages used different base fonts, thus
+making previewing painful (and wasting disk space). Now, everything
+uses a single base font in a new encoding named 8r (see tools/8r.enc or
+tools/8r.etx).
+
+This new base encoding is *not* Adobe Standard Encoding, because that
+does not provide access to all of the 228 characters normally supplied
+with a Type 1 font. Therefore, you must use a DVI-to-PostScript driver
+which can perform reencoding, such as dvips(k).
+
+Aside from the base font, there are other small changes in the new
+fonts. For the Cork-encoded fonts, the stretch and shrink of the
+interword spacing has been changed. For the dvips fonts, the positions
+of the preaccented characters have been fixed (e.g., Aring is at the
+same position in every font). Therefore, the font checksums are
+different. The actual character dimensions, however, remain unchanged.
+
+The font metrics provided have proper checksums generated for them,
+compatible with ps2pk, thanks to Piet Tutelaars who sorted it out.
+
+The new fonts (mostly) have new names. You can get the new fontname
+distribution from CTAN's info directory.
+
+This distribution includes support the standard 35 fonts, various freely
+available fonts (with type1's), and many commercial-only fonts (no
+type1's). Smallcaps and obliqued versions are available in bold and
+normal variants, where applicable. All fonts have ligatures and
+kerning (no ``raw'' fonts); therefore, even the *8r base fonts can be
+used for real typesetting.
+
+We built these fonts using both fontinst and afm2tfm (and other
+utilities). Both required changes, which will be merged into the next
+releases. See the tools/ directory.
+
+Primary perpetrators: Sebastian Rahtz, Alan Jeffrey, Karl Berry.
+Aiders and abettors: Tom Rokicki, Ciar\'an \'O Duibh\'{\i}n, Pierre MacKay,
+ Constantin Kahn, Rob Hutchings, Berthold Horn, Damian Cugley.
+Checksums: Piet Tutelaars