From e0c6872cf40896c7be36b11dcc744620f10adf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900 Subject: Initial commit --- fonts/psfonts/README | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) create mode 100644 fonts/psfonts/README (limited to 'fonts/psfonts/README') diff --git a/fonts/psfonts/README b/fonts/psfonts/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..525ac92994 --- /dev/null +++ b/fonts/psfonts/README @@ -0,0 +1,46 @@ +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 -- cgit v1.2.3