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@@ -300,9 +300,9 @@ working on them, and several problems have been identified:
<dt>pxfonts set version 1.0<dd>(26 fonts) by Young Ryu<br>
The <i>pxfonts</i> set consists of
<ul>
- <li> virtual text fonts using <i>Adobe</i> <i>Palatino</i> (or the URW
- replacement used by <i>ghostscript</i>) with modified plus,
- equal and slash symbols;
+ <li> virtual text fonts using <i>Adobe</i> <i>Palatino</i>
+ (or the URW replacement used by <i>ghostscript</i>)
+ with modified plus, equal and slash symbols;
<li> maths alphabets using <i>Palatino</i>;
<li> maths fonts of all symbols in the computer modern maths fonts
(<i>cmsy</i>, <i>cmmi</i>, <i>cmex</i> and the Greek
@@ -318,9 +318,10 @@ working on them, and several problems have been identified:
<i>txfonts</i> set should be installed whenever <i>pxfonts</i>
are. LaTeX, <i>dvips</i> and PDFTeX support files are
included.
-
- <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/pxfonts/doc/pxfontsdocA4.pdf">Documentation</a>
- is readily available.
+<p/> The fonts are not perfect; the widths assigned to the characters in
+ the <code>.tfm</code> file are wrong for some glyphs; this can cause
+ sequences of characters to &#8220;look wrong&#8221;, or in some cases even to
+ overlap.
<p/> The fonts are licensed under the GPL; use in published
documents is permitted.
<dt>txfonts set version 3.1<dd>(42 fonts) by Young Ryu<br>
@@ -340,9 +341,10 @@ working on them, and several problems have been identified:
</ul>
The text fonts are available in OT1, T1 and LY1
encodings, and TS encoded symbols are also available.
-
- <a href="http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/txfonts/doc/txfontsdocA4.pdf">Documentation</a>
- is readily available.
+<p/> The fonts are not perfect; the widths assigned to the characters in
+ the <code>.tfm</code> file are wrong for some glyphs; this can cause
+ sequences of characters to &#8220;look wrong&#8221;, or in some cases even to
+ overlap.
<p/> The fonts are licensed under the GPL; use in published
documents is permitted.
<dt>txfontsb set version 1.00<dd> by Young Ryu and Antonis Tsolomitis<br>
@@ -376,12 +378,14 @@ behaviour is both unethical and bad for the consumer.
The fonts may not render well (or at all, under ATM), may not have the
&#8216;standard&#8217; complement of 228 glyphs, or may not include metric files
(which you need to make TFM files).
-<p/>TrueType remains the &#8220;native&#8221; format for Windows. Some TeX
+<p/>TrueType was for a long time the &#8220;native&#8221; format for Windows, but
+MicroSoft joined the development of the OpenType specification, and
+&#8216;modern&#8217; windows will work happily with fonts in either format. Some TeX
implementations such as <a href="FAQ-commercial.html">TrueTeX</a> use TrueType
versions of Computer Modern and Times Maths fonts to render TeX
documents in Windows without the need for additional system software like
-ATM. (When used on a system running Windows XP, TrueTeX can
-also use Type 1 fonts.)
+ATM. (When used on a system running Windows XP or later,
+TrueTeX can also use Adobe Type 1 fonts.)
<p/>When choosing fonts, your own system environment may not be the only one of
interest. If you will be sending your finished documents to others for
further use, you should consider whether a given font format will introduce