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+*****************************************************************************
+* The collection of the PL fonts (the Polish version of the *
+* Computer Modern ones) in PostScript Type 1 format *
+* (public domain) *
+*****************************************************************************
+
+---------
+SYNOPSIS:
+---------
+
+Under the pressure from the Windows users, the collection of PL fonts in
+PostScript Type 1 format was eventually adapted to the (mostly
+guessed) demands of the Windows environment. Still, the fonts are usable
+with TeX, which was the primary aim of Janusz M. Nowacki when he created
+the first version of the Type 1 PL fonts; however, encoding files are now
+required, as Windows and TeX use different encoding schemes.
+
+The distribution of the new version consists of 77 fonts, each of them having
+four ``instances'' (i.e., PFB, AFM, PFM, and TFM files):
+
+ plb10, plbsy10, plbx10, plbx12, plbx5, plbx6, plbx7, plbx8, plbx9,
+ plbxsl10, plbxti10, plcsc10, pldunh10, plex10, plex9, plff10, plfi10,
+ plfib8, plinch, plitt10, plmi10, plmi12, plmi5, plmi6, plmi7, plmi8,
+ plmi9, plmib10, plr10, plr12, plr17, plr5, plr6, plr7, plr8, plr9,
+ plsl10, plsl12, plsl8, plsl9, plsltt10, plss10, plss12, plss17, plss8,
+ plss9, plssbi10, plssbx10, plssdc10, plssi10, plssi12, plssi17, plssi8,
+ plssi9, plssq8, plssqi8, plsy10, plsy5, plsy6, plsy7, plsy8, plsy9,
+ pltcsc10, pltex10, pltex8, pltex9, plti10, plti12, plti7, plti8, plti9,
+ pltt10, pltt12, pltt8, pltt9, plu10, plvtt10.
+
+Additionally, there are 10 encoding files, one font map file, and two
+alternative config files to be used with Tomas Rokicki's dvips driver:
+
+ plin.enc, plit.enc, plitt.enc, plme.enc, plmi.enc, plms.enc,
+ plrm.enc, plsc.enc, plte.enc, pltt.enc
+
+ pl.map, config.pl (or pl.cfg)
+
+plsample.tex (in Polish) is a sample file to be processed with MeX
+(Polish plain) format.
+
+In order to install the fonts under Windows, only *.pfb and *.pfm files
+are needed; TeX users will need *.pfb, *.tfm, *.enc, pl.map and config.pl
+files.
+Details of installation will not be explained here (refer to the respective
+manuals). *.afm files are included for informative purposes (and for
+the completeness). They MUST NOT be used for generating *.tfm files
+with afmtotfm or a similar software; instead, *.tfm files from this
+distribution or from the newest distribution of METAFONT sources of
+the PL fonts (ver. 1.07) should be used.
+
+At the first glance, the number of different encodings may seem
+surprising -- why as many as ten? Simply, Computer Modern family
+fonts use actually ten different layouts. The collection of PL
+fonts inherited this feature with the ``benefit of inventory'':
+
+ 1. 152 glyphs
+ plb10 plbx10 plbx12 plbx5 plbx6 plbx7 plbx8 plbx9 plbxsl10 pldunh10
+ plff10 plfib8 plr10 plr12 plr17 plr6 plr7 plr8 plr9 plsl10
+ plsl12 plsl8 plsl9 plss10 plss12 plss17 plss8 plss9 plssbi10
+ plssbx10 plssdc10 plssi10 plssi12 plssi17 plssi8 plssi9
+ plssq8 plssqi8 plvtt10
+ 2. 132 glyphs
+ plbsy10 plsy10 plsy5 plsy6 plsy7 plsy8 plsy9
+ 3. 152 glyphs
+ plbxti10 plfi10 plti10 plti12 plti7 plti8 plti9 plu10
+ 4. 151 glyphs
+ plcsc10 plr5
+ 5. 130 glyphs
+ plex10 plex9
+ 6. 47 glyphs
+ plinch
+ 7. 151 glyphs
+ plitt10
+ 8. 130 glyphs
+ plmi10 plmi12 plmi5 plmi6 plmi7 plmi8 plmi9 plmib10
+ 9. 151 glyphs
+ plsltt10 pltcsc10 pltt10 pltt12 pltt8 pltt9
+10. 129 glyphs
+ pltex10 pltex8 pltex9
+
+Internal (i.e., PostScript) font names were chosen in such a way that
+subfamilies are formed, whenever feasible. The naming is supposed to
+facilitate using the fonts under ATM (Adobe Type Manager). Fonts were
+grupped into 51 subfamilies -- we couldn't do better:
+
+ NR POSTSCRIPT NAME TFM FILE NAME
+ 1. PLCaps10-Regular plcsc10
+ 2. PLDunhill10-Regular pldunh10
+ 3. PLFibonacci8-Regular plfib8
+ 4. PLFunny10-Italic plfi10
+ PLFunny10-Regular plff10
+ 5. PLInch-Regular plinch
+ 6. PLMathExtension10-Regular plex10
+ 7. PLMathExtension9-Regular plex9
+ 8. PLMathItalic10-BoldItalic plmib10
+ PLMathItalic10-Italic plmi10
+ 9. PLMathItalic12-Italic plmi12
+ 10. PLMathItalic5-Italic plmi5
+ 11. PLMathItalic6-Italic plmi6
+ 12. PLMathItalic7-Italic plmi7
+ 13. PLMathItalic8-Italic plmi8
+ 14. PLMathItalic9-Italic plmi9
+ 15. PLMathSymbols10-BoldItalic plbsy10
+ PLMathSymbols10-Italic plsy10
+ 16. PLMathSymbols5-Italic plsy5
+ 17. PLMathSymbols6-Italic plsy6
+ 18. PLMathSymbols7-Italic plsy7
+ 19. PLMathSymbols8-Italic plsy8
+ 20. PLMathSymbols9-Italic plsy9
+ 21. PLRoman10-Bold plbx10
+ PLRoman10-BoldItalic plbxti10
+ PLRoman10-Italic plti10
+ PLRoman10-Regular plr10
+ 22. PLRoman12-Bold plbx12
+ PLRoman12-Italic plti12
+ PLRoman12-Regular plr12
+ 23. PLRoman17-Regular plr17
+ 24. PLRoman5-Bold plbx5
+ PLRoman5-Regular plr5
+ 25. PLRoman6-Bold plbx6
+ PLRoman6-Regular plr6
+ 26. PLRoman7-Bold plbx7
+ PLRoman7-Italic plti7
+ PLRoman7-Regular plr7
+ 27. PLRoman8-Bold plbx8
+ PLRoman8-Italic plti8
+ PLRoman8-Regular plr8
+ 28. PLRoman9-Bold plbx9
+ PLRoman9-Italic plti9
+ PLRoman9-Regular plr9
+ 29. PLRomanDemi10-Regular plb10
+ 30. PLSans10-Bold plssbx10
+ PLSans10-BoldItalic plssbi10
+ PLSans10-Italic plssi10
+ PLSans10-Regular plss10
+ 31. PLSans12-Italic plssi12
+ PLSans12-Regular plss12
+ 32. PLSans17-Italic plssi17
+ PLSans17-Regular plss17
+ 33. PLSans8-Italic plssi8
+ PLSans8-Regular plss8
+ 34. PLSans9-Italic plssi9
+ PLSans9-Regular plss9
+ 35. PLSansDemiCond10-Regular plssdc10
+ 36. PLSansQuotation8-Italic plssqi8
+ PLSansQuotation8-Regular plssq8
+ 37. PLSlanted10-BoldItalic plbxsl10
+ PLSlanted10-Italic plsl10
+ 38. PLSlanted12-Italic plsl12
+ 39. PLSlanted8-Italic plsl8
+ 40. PLSlanted9-Italic plsl9
+ 41. PLTeXExtended10-Regular pltex10
+ 42. PLTeXExtended8-Regular pltex8
+ 43. PLTeXExtended9-Regular pltex9
+ 44. PLTypewriter10-Italic plitt10
+ PLTypewriter10-Regular pltt10
+ 45. PLTypewriter12-Regular pltt12
+ 46. PLTypewriter8-Regular pltt8
+ 47. PLTypewriter9-Regular pltt9
+ 48. PLTypewriterCaps10-Regular pltcsc10
+ 49. PLTypewriterSlanted10-Italic plsltt10
+ 50. PLTypewriterVarWd10-Regular plvtt10
+ 51. PLUnslanted10-Regular plu10
+
+--------
+HISTORY:
+--------
+
+The fonts were originally created by Janusz M. Nowacki in 1997
+and released during the meeting of the Polish TeX Users Group (GUST)
+in Bachotek. Several minor bugs were removed during a few
+years of using the fonts. Total re-arrangement of the
+collection and adaptation to the Windows environment took place
+out in 2000 and was carried out by the JNS TEAM (Bogus\l{}aw Jackowski,
+Janusz M. Nowacki and Piotr Strzelczyk).
+
+The current version is 1.15 (of 12 April 2005).
+
+1.15, 12 April 2005 -- the layout of the distribution reorganised to
+ conform with TDS v. 1.1; pl.map was replaced by
+ pltext.map and plother.map (for more easy substition
+ by LM fonts)
+1.14, 22 May 2000 -- files pltex*.pfb modified
+ (the number of charstrings was wrong; actually,
+ it was continuation of 1.13 bug fix)
+1.13, 17 May 2000 -- file plte.enc corrected (was .notdef instead
+ of space)
+1.12, 13 April 2000 r. -- the first release after total re-construction
+
+---------
+COLOPHON:
+---------
+
+Many people contributed to the PL project with their help, comments and
+advices -- very many thanks.
+
+There were two sources exploited by Janusz M. Nowacki:
+ * the AMS collection of Computer Modern Type 1 fonts;
+ * METAFONT sources of the PL fonts (a part of the MeX package).
+
+The Polish TeX Users Group GUST stimulated and partially sponsored the
+project. Krzysio Leszczy\'nski and Toni Walter pointed out some
+deficiencies. Special thanks go to Berthold K. P. Horn for his valuable
+hints concerning technical details of the font representation.
+
+Main tools for the preparing of the PL Type 1 font collection
+were (besides a few commercial programs not worthy mentioning):
+TeX, METAFONT, Type 1 utilities, Ghostscript, AWK and Perl.
+A lot of testing and tuning was carried out in the BOP firm.
+
+
+--------------
+EMAIL CONTACT:
+--------------
+
+ B_Jackowski@gust.org.pl
+or
+ J.Nowacki@gust.org.pl
+or
+ P.Strzelczyk@gust.org.pl