dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) (11/29/85)
Now that we're using TeX we want to design/modify some fonts, both to get different sizes of standard ones (e.g. I need smaller san-serif fonts) and to add a few 'local' characters for logos etc.. 1 - Are the metafont files that the standard TeX fonts were made from generally available? (the font tape distributed by Stanford has .PXL files of many sizes but no .MF files)? 2 - Has anyone ported Metafont to VAX VMS? The VMS TeX distribution has only the web file, which generates a massive Pascal program which is nearly (==not) VMS Pascal compatible. I don't have time to do this port at present, and I certainly don't want to if it's been done already. 3 - As there didn't seem to be a suitable test file in the TeX distribution, I've produced a simple test file that prints all the (27) 10pt fonts on the standard distribution tape, to check that they work and see how they look. It's adjusted to just fit into the 155KBytes font memory of our LN03 (including one 128K RAM pod), but would presumably work with any other output device which is not too short of font memory. Does anyone else want a copy? - I'll post it if there's enough interest. 4 - The above test shows that ambxsl10.nft (and the .pxl file it came from) is faulty, and won't print. Magnified versions such as ambxsl10.120 are OK! Is this `just us', or is this a dud file generally? 5 - Does anyone have a version of the typewriter fonts in which M and N don't look as if they've been through a strainer?
bothner@Navajo.ARPA (12/06/85)
In article <255@stl.UUCP> dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) writes: >1 - Are the metafont files that the standard TeX fonts were made from >generally available? (the font tape distributed by Stanford has .PXL >files of many sizes but no .MF files)? Knuth has just finished the new "final" versions of the Computer Modern font family, written in the new Metafont (at least they have just been installed on the Dover printer). Thus the Metafont sources will presumably shortly be available from whoever does the TeX distribution. (The reason only PXL files were distributed is that the old fonts were written in the old non-portable Metafont.) --Per Bothner Bothner@su-score ...!glacier!navajo!bothner Computer Science Dept, Stanford University Stanford CA 95305