mc3i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Martin Costabel) (02/15/89)
mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes: >Available from the clarkson archive is >latex-style amssymbols.sty >tex-style mssymb.tex >amstex-style mssymb.sty >that will do what you want if you have the amstex fonts which are also >available here at Clarkson. Where are the amstex fonts? What you have at Clarkson in pub/amsfonts is a subset of the fonts in (completely useless) OLD Metafont ('78) description. At score.stanford.edu they also claim to have "the" amstex fonts for anonymous ftp. But there one finds, in addition to the above, pxl and tfm files for the msxm and msym fonts, but not for the eufm fonts (Fraktur or Gothic characters), and also only in one size (suitable for 10pt documents). Is there a place where the complete set of pk or pxl files in the standard sizes can be obtained via ftp? I do know that one can get them on tape from the AMS. So, if Clarkson has them somewhere, why don't they put them into pub/amsfonts (maybe in a compressed form)? A related question: At Clarkson, in pub/amsfonts, one also finds a file with a description of the amstex stuff. There it is promised that the AMS is real soon now converting these old Metafont files to new Metafont so that everybody can use them. The only problem is that this promise is from 1985! Does anybody know what the current policy of AMS about the amstex fonts is (if they have any)? --Martin Costabel
mostardi@ux1.lbl.gov (David Mostardi) (02/16/89)
In article <8Xy=77y00WI-J3ikZI@andrew.cmu.edu> mc3i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Martin Costabel) writes: >There it is promised that the AMS is real soon >now converting these old Metafont files to new Metafont so that everybody can >use them. The only problem is that this promise is from 1985! Does anybody know >what the current policy of AMS about the amstex fonts is (if they have any)? The AMS has contracted a good Metafont person to translate all the Metafont 79 files (MSXM, MSYM...) into new Metafont. This includes what the 'Joy of TeX' calls 'Future Fonts', also the Blackboard bold characters. There may even be a MSZM font as well. I talked with this person last week and he is estimating that the project will be finished sometime this summer. ****************************************************************** David Mostardi "Guess what, Dad! Those chocolate MSRI, Berkeley diskettes fit right into your mostardi@ux1.lbl.gov computer, no problem!"
gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) (03/24/89)
I notice that in the TeX distribution, the new AMS Fonts only go up
to magstep 1 in the 300pk files. (I am particularly interested in
the script characters, eusm10, at magstep 2.) Why stop there? The 200dpi
part has higher magsteps.
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Gerald A. Edgar
Department of Mathematics TS1871@OHSTVMA.bitnet
The Ohio State University gae@sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu
Columbus, OH 43210 ...!{att,pyramid}!osu-cis!sphere.mast.ohio-state.edu!gaejrich@abizac.ucr.edu (john richardson) (04/05/91)
Thanks to rar@ads.com (Bob Riemenschneider) who pointed out what I once knew but had forgotten: ams stuff is available from e-math.ams.com. I had retrieved mine from uunet and this distribution seemed to be missing the msbm fonts.