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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) *
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SYNOPSIS:
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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
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HISTORY:
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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
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COLOPHON:
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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.
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EMAIL CONTACT:
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B_Jackowski@gust.org.pl
or
J.Nowacki@gust.org.pl
or
P.Strzelczyk@gust.org.pl
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