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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!
+=========================================================================