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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-17 21:41:51 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-01-17 21:41:51 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/windvi/ANNOUNCE b/Build/source/texk/windvi/ANNOUNCE new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..e10ab9667ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Build/source/texk/windvi/ANNOUNCE @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +Xdvik with t1 fonts. + +With this I announce the availability of xdvik-22.06-t1-beta1. The +last public release was xdvik-22.06-t1-alpha4. Due to the excelent +work done by Paul Vojta in xdvi and Rainer Menzner in t1lib this has +been a lot easier than it could have been. + +The t1 functionality will eventualy be part of xdvik, so test now or +tear your hair later ;-) + +xdvik-t1-beta1 has these features: +- Based on t1lib 0.9 +- Faster startup than alpha4 due to defered t1 font loading. But t1 + font loading still has quite high overhead compared to pk font + loading. Keep your xdvi going, don't quit it each time. +- Correct glyph sizes for scaled fonts (e.g., cmr10 at 17pt and so on) +- Better accomodation for asian languages. +- dvips compatible w.r.t. fontmaps, but some changes in your maps to + accomodate xdvi might still be needed. +- automatic encoding recognition heuristic, minimizing the fontmaps needed + in most cases. No fontmaps needed for cmr10 and the other type1 cm and + ams fonts, or indeed, most other TeX fonts. +- helper program to steal fonts from ghostscript to use as Times-Roman + and all the other usual Postscript fonts. Some of these will require + fontmaps though. +- helper function to use your commercial postscript fonts. Some of these + will also require fontmaps - you can probably use your existing maps. + +Please read the documents, in particular the README and XDVIFONTS +files, there are new things in these for everyone. It should be quite +easy to install in a recent teTeX installation though. + +I want comments, remarks and patches, even for the smallest nit, xdvi +is quite important to the Unix TeX community, so help me help you. +Please send it to janl@linpro.no. Due to time restraints it might be +a while before I'm able to answer or adress the problems raised +though. + +xdvik-t1 is available from http://www.math.uio.no/~janl/xdvi/t1/, +ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/ and, after a mirroring delay, on CTAN. + +13/05/1999 -- Nicolai Langfeldt |