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cmps1
Type 1 Postscript versions of the Computer Modern Fonts
Version 0.1
June 10, 1992
***What is this?***
I've recently managed to convert the type 3 Computer Modern postscript
fonts cmrps into type 1 fonts compatible with ATM. (I've done this on a
Macintosh, but the results should be portable.) The conversion so far is
less than perfect:
1) I've only done the set used by plain LaTeX. In addition,
I've only done the 10 point sizes.
2) The extensions font doesn't work correctly for reasons I
don't understand.
3) ATM doesn't seem to want to render the text italic font at
sizes >50 points. This seems like a bug that I won't be
able to fix. (It is not a problem with the cache setting
in ATM.)
4) The TeX encoding is different than the Mac encoding. If you
use the fonts in a mac application and print you get special
characters where the spaces should be. My (hack) solution
is to create two different versions of the fonts: One to
use with Mac applications (with the space characters
changed) and one to use with TeX. I've actually
significantly rearranged the Mac version of the math italic
font so that the greek characters are easily accessible
with the option key.
What has this given me? I can now use OzTeX to preview at any size.
This takes up less disk space than the pk fonts do. (Each postscript
font takes up about 25k.) I can easily use the Computer Modern fonts
with other Mac applications. I find that typewriter font is the best
monospaced font available. You can probably find more...
***Disclaimer***
I'm releasing these fonts for fun. If you can use them, good. If you
hate them, too bad. If you can fix them, great! Please let me know.
Finally: I take no responsibility or credit for anything.
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James Amundson
amun@midway.uchicago.edu