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+ The dm Fonts and DVF.EXE (Version 0.4)
+
+TeX 3.0 cannot reach its full potential until it has the appropriate fonts.
+In time new fonts including acccented characters as true characters rather
+than composites will be generated. For the present though, one can make do
+with virtual fonts based on the cm fonts. As a step in this direction, 55
+dm (dyslexic modern) virtual fonts have been created from TeX text mapped
+cm fonts. These include 58 characters referenced by numbers in the range
+192 to 255. The character number has been based on ISO 8859/1, details of
+which were sent to me by Chris Thompson. The TeX community needs urgently
+to establish a decent standard for character mappings 128-255. The 58
+additional characters in the dm fonts are either single characters remapped
+or character pairs possibly with positioning. TeX was used with the fonts at
+16pt to obtain character dimensions, which avoids some possible rounding
+problems. The width of the virtual character is exactly the same as the width
+of the last character in its expansion. This simplifies DVI-DVI conversion.
+Kerning for the new characters is based on the principal character in the
+virtual character. Thus each accented letter is treated in terms of kerns
+as though it were the unaccented letter. Those who wish more subtle kerns
+may modify the TFM files with TFtoPL and PLtoTF. The check sum of the dm
+font is obtained from that of the corresponding cm font by adding 4.
+
+In addition to the dm virtual fonts, this distribution also provides
+the DVI-DVI translation program DVF.EXE. It has the 55 VF's built in.
+For a DVI file which contains references to the dm fonts, one may run
+DVF on this file to translate these references into their cm equivalents.
+
+These are experimental fonts and programs. Please send comments, bug reports,
+etc., to
+ Wayne Sullivan
+ WSULIVAN@IRLEARN.bitnet
+(14 May 1990)
+
+Please destroy the earlier code page 850 version of DVF. DVF03 has incorrect
+kerning for certain characters.