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- From: gls@windmill.ATT.COM (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
- Subject: Re: Math Fonts
- Organization: Jack of Clubs Precision Instruments Co.
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:21:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.032155.19460@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- References: <1682@applix.com> <S7A01FN@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de>
- Sender: gls@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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- In <S7A01FN@minnie.zdv.uni-mainz.de>, knappen@obelix.kph.uni-mainz.de writes:
- > The best math fonts are still the TeX fonts cmmi, cmsy, cmex together with the
- > AMS (American Mathematical Society) fonts msam and msbm. They are available in
- > METAFONT format, as readily computed tfm and pk-files (for different printers)
- > or as ps-outlines from several servers, eg ftp.tex.ac.uk.
-
- Is a ps-outline a PostScript type-1 typeface? I don't see any PostScript
- fonts on ftp.tex.ac.uk, and I've never heard of any public-domain Post-
- Script versions of Computer Modern faces. As Professor Horn and many
- others have pointed out, Y&Y sells C. M. faces in PostScript.
-
- -:-
- "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a UNIX program out of my
- source directory!"
- "AGAIN?"
- "Nothin' up my sleeve ... PRESTO!"
-
- IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
- PROGRAM-ID. PROCESS-DATA.
- AUTHOR-NAME. B. J. MOOSE, FROSTBYTE DATA SYS.
- SOURCE-COMPUTER. IBM-7044.
- OBJECT-COMPUTER. IBM-7044.
- . . .
-
- "No doubt about it--I gotta get a new source directory!"
- --
- Col. G. L. Sicherman
- gls@windmill.att.COM
-