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+=========================================================================
+                     CM-Super font package
+                     version 0.3.3 (May 25, 2002)
+
+  Copyright (c) 2001, 2002 Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>.
+
+  This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+  (at your option) any later version.
+
+  As a special exception, permission is granted to include these font
+  programs in a Postscript or PDF file that consists of a document that
+  contains text to be displayed or printed using these fonts, regardless
+  of the conditions or license applying to the document itself.
+
+  This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+  GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+
+The CM-Super package contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT
+fonts and covers entire EC/TC, EC Concrete, EC Bright and LH fonts
+(Computer Modern font families). All European and Cyrillic writings
+are covered. Each Type 1 font program contains ALL glyphs from the
+following standard LaTeX font encodings: T1, TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C, X2,
+and also Adobe StandardEncoding (585 glyphs per non-SC font and 468
+glyphs per SC font), and could be reencoded to any of these encodings
+using standard dvips or pdftex facilities (the corresponding support
+files are also included).
+
+See the file INSTALL for installation instructions for teTeX, TeX Live,
+MikTeX or VTeX/Free systems.
+
+See the file FAQ for answers to some frequently asked questions.
+
+PLEASE read the files README, INSTALL, and FAQ carefully before
+reporting problems.
+
+The goal was to provide full support for a wide number of fonts used
+in LaTeX, and at the same time minimize the number and total size of
+font files. Each Type 1 font shares all common glyphs which are present
+in supported encodings. E.g. Latin letters, Russian letters, accents
+and a number of other glyphs which are present in more than one font
+encoding are stored only once in Type 1 fonts.
+
+These Type 1 fonts could be used as a drop-in replacement for LaTeX's
+EC/TC, EC Concrete, EC Bright and LH fonts to create Postscript and
+PDF documents with vector fonts (if you used METAFONT versions of
+EC/TC, EC Concrete, EC Bright or LH fonts, no changes to your LaTeX
+documents are required to use these Type 1 fonts once you have them
+installed). You will still need the METAFONT sources of these fonts to
+be able to generate needed TFM metric files (once you have them
+generated, METAFONT will not be used). You could also prepare EPS or
+PDF illustrations in your favorite applications with texts written
+using these fonts, and then include them in your LaTeX documents.
+These fonts could be used not only in TeX-related applications, but
+also as all other Type 1 text fonts, e.g. in Windows (and you will be
+able to typeset multilingual texts using them).
+
+Font file names correspond to the scheme used in EC fonts, with the
+first two letters "sf" ("super font") instead of "ec".  E.g., sfrm1000.pfb
+contains all glyphs from:
+ecrm1000, tcrm1000, larm1000, lbrm1000, lcrm1000, rxrm1000.
+
+The third and fourth letters in the font name correspond to font shape.
+The list of provided font shapes is included below:
+
+  rm:  Computer Modern Roman
+  sl:  Computer Modern Slanted
+  ti:  Computer Modern Italic
+  cc:  Computer Modern Caps and Small Caps
+  ui:  Computer Modern Unslanted Italic
+  sc:  Computer Modern Slanted Caps and Small Caps
+  ci:  Computer Modern Classical Serif Italic
+  bx:  Computer Modern Bold Extended
+  bl:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted
+  bi:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Italic
+  xc:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Caps and Small Caps
+  oc:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted Caps and Small Caps
+  rb:  Computer Modern Roman Bold
+  bm:  Computer Modern Roman Bold Variant
+  ss:  Computer Modern Sans Serif
+  si:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Slanted
+  sx:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended
+  so:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended Slanted
+  tt:  Computer Modern Typewriter
+  st:  Computer Modern Typewriter Slanted
+  it:  Computer Modern Typewriter Italic
+  tc:  Computer Modern Typewriter Caps and Small Caps
+  vt:  Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter
+  vi:  Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter Italic
+  dh:  Computer Modern Dunhill Roman
+  fb:  Computer Modern Fibonacci Medium
+  fs:  Computer Modern Fibonacci Slanted
+  ff:  Computer Modern Funny Roman
+  fi:  Computer Modern Funny Italic
+
+Each font shape comes in 14 font sizes ranging from 5pt to 35.83pt (or
+11 font sizes for typewriter fonts ranging from 8pt to 35.83pt).
+
+Also, the following 13 one-sized font shapes are included:
+
+  sflq8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation
+  sfli8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined
+  sflb8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold
+  sflo8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique
+  sfltt8:    Computer Modern LaTeX Typewriter
+  isflq8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Invisible
+  isfli8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined Invisible
+  isflb8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Invisible
+  isflo8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique Invisible
+  isfltt8:   Computer Modern LaTeX Typewriter Invisible
+  sfsq8:     Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation
+  sfqi8:     Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation Inclined
+  sfssdc10:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Demi Condensed
+
+Also, the following 14 fonts from Computer Modern Concrete family are
+included (font file names correspond to the scheme used in EC Concrete
+fonts):
+
+  sform5 .. sform10:  Computer Modern Concrete Roman
+  sfosl5 .. sfosl10:  Computer Modern Concrete Slanted
+  sfoti10:            Computer Modern Concrete Italic
+  sfocc10:            Computer Modern Concrete Caps and Small Caps
+
+Also, the following 19 fonts from Computer Modern Bright family are
+included (font file names correspond to the scheme used in European
+Computer Modern Bright fonts):
+
+  sfbmr{8,9,10,17}:  Computer Modern Bright Roman
+  sfbmo{8,9,10,17}:  Computer Modern Bright Oblique
+  sfbsr{8,9,10,17}:  Computer Modern Bright Semibold
+  sfbso{8,9,10,17}:  Computer Modern Bright Semibold Oblique
+  sfbbx10:           Computer Modern Bright Bold Extended
+  sfbtl10:           Computer Modern Typewriter Light
+  sfbto10:           Computer Modern Typewriter Light Oblique
+
+Fonts were created using TeXtrace (based on AutoTrace and
+Ghostscript), t1utils and a bunch of Perl scripts, and were optimized
+and hinted using FontLab 3.1. The set of UniqueID values was
+registered at Adobe. We use AGL compliant glyph names when possible
+(there are some glyphs which are neither present in AGL nor in
+Unicode).
+
+It should also be noted that the fonts use precise (non-integer) glyph
+widths which better match the TFM widths than just rounding to the
+nearest integer. These widths are generated using the best
+approximation (based on continued fractions) with the denominator not
+exceeding 107 to fit in 1 byte in CharString.  Apparently, such subtle
+technique was used first in BSR/Y&Y CM fonts.
+
+I'd like to thank Peter Szabo for TeXtrace, Martin Weber for
+AutoTrace, and FontLab Ltd. for providing a copy of FontLab.
+
+It should be noted that while creating these fonts we intentionally
+and on principle used only automatic methods which do not require font
+designers talents. The aim was to use TOTALLY automatic conversion of
+METAFONT fonts to Type 1 format, automatic optimization and hinting,
+with the best achievable quality of final Type 1 fonts, to be able to
+re-generate the fonts if necessary (e.g. when a new version of
+original METAFONT fonts will be released).  Undoubtedly, there are
+fields for improvement of this approach, which we will use in future
+versions of the fonts, but even now the fonts seem to look and print
+quite good (we hope :-).
+
+It appears that careless approach to FontLab's optimization and
+auto-hinting facilities could lead to loss of quality of the original
+font (some glyph shapes could be broken), so we used the most precise
+optimization, and hope that optimized and hinted fonts are indeed
+better than original traced fonts (also, they are significantly
+smaller in size). So far, we did not find any bugs in optimized fonts.
+
+There are 434 Type 1 outline fonts (*.pfb) in the CM-Super font set,
+and they cover 2536 TeX fonts!
+
+Note that a small number of (fortunately, rarely used) fonts are not
+included yet because of the bugs in EC font drivers which prevented
+their generation. We plan to provide these missing fonts soon.
+(Currently there are 25 missing Type 1 font files.)
+
+The CM-Super package could be freely downloaded from
+CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/cm-super
+and also from
+ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/
+(see also ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/README for a list of mirrors)
+The total size of all PFB files is about 57 Mb
+(AFM files are provided, too, for use with non-TeX applications).
+
+Although this package is provided AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY (as
+explained in the file COPYING), we welcome your comments and bug
+reports which should be sent to the email address given above.
+
+Happy TeXing!
+=========================================================================