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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/README b/Master/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c13463b6054 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/README @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +Copyright 2011 Karl Berry +You may freely use, modify, and/or distribute this file, without limitation. + +The idea behind these files is to define map entries for the 35 standard +PostScript fonts, in the 8r, 8y, and 8z encodings. + +We support these encodings here, instead of using the .map files from +the ly1 and cs packages, because updmap supports various options to +transform names between Adobe-style and URW-style, in order to support +downloadable vs. assuming built-in fonts in the output from dvips, +pdftex, etc. Those options apply to these *35.map files only, so +anything about them should be included here for best results. + +Here's the idea: +- the "base14" fonts are Courier, Helvetica, Times (x4 of each) + plus the singular Symbol and and ZapfDingbats. +- the "base35" fonts add Avant Garde, New Century Schoolbook, + Helvetica-Narrow and Palatino (x4 of each). + +- there are URW fontnames used when we download using the URW pfb files, + e.g. URWPalladioL-Roma. +- there are Adobe fontnames used when we do not download, but instead + assume the reading environment provides the fonts, + e.g., Palatino-Roman. + +- these days, it is recommended (and the default) to download + everything, for both ps and pdf output. + +Nevertheless, the files here support various combinations of the above: +dvipdfm35.map - Adobe for base14, URW otherwise (dvipdfm syntax, obsolete). +pdftex35.map - Adobe for base14, URW otherwise (pdftex syntax). +dvips35.map - Adobe for everything. +ps2pk35.map - URW for everything (the default). + +These names (dvipdfm, pdftex, dvips, ps2pk) refer to usage and syntax, +not to the programs by those names, as one might reasonably assume. It +is only updmap that reads these particular files, not the programs. + +It would have been simpler if we had generated these files from a +program in the first place instead of maintaining these multiple +almost-but-not-quite-the-same files, but here we are. |