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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2006-01-17 21:41:51 +0000
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+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