dane@denali.stanford.edu (Dane Spearing) (11/23/89)
Does Adobe (or anyone else for that matter) distribute a Slavic Font? I've got some Russian typing I need to do. If so, what is the name of the font? (I've got access to practially all of the bitmapped Adobe fonts, but I can't figure out by the names of them which one might be Slavic). Thanks. -Dane Spearing dane@denali.stanford.edu
smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (J. Daniel Smith) (11/23/89)
In article <6947@portia.Stanford.EDU> dane@denali.stanford.edu (Dane Spearing) writes: > >Does Adobe (or anyone else for that matter) distribute a Slavic Font? Georgia Tobin of the Metafoundry (part of the OCLC) has but together a TeX compatible Slavic font in METAfont. There is both a "Time-Roman" version and a "Helvetica" version. Details on obtaining such fonts has always been rather sketchy. I know that some of their other fonts are distributed through just a few companies (one in the US is Personal-TeX). However, I haven't seen the Slavic fonts from Personal-TeX. Perhaps someone else has more info on obtaining fonts from the Metafoundry. Dan ========================================================================= J. Daniel Smith Internet: smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu Michigan State University BITNET: smithdan@msuegr Usenet: uunet!frith!smithda Wenn die Katze aus dem Haus ist, tanzen die Maeuse. (When the cat's away, the mice will play.) =========================================================================
dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (D.A. Hosek) (11/27/89)
In article <5505@cps3xx.UUCP> smithda@cpsvax.cps.msu.edu (J. Daniel Smith) writes: >In article <6947@portia.Stanford.EDU> dane@denali.stanford.edu (Dane Spearing) writes: >>Does Adobe (or anyone else for that matter) distribute a Slavic Font? >Georgia Tobin of the Metafoundry (part of the OCLC) has but together a >TeX compatible Slavic font in METAfont. There is both a "Time-Roman" >version and a "Helvetica" version. >Details on obtaining such fonts has always been rather sketchy. I >know that some of their other fonts are distributed through just a few >companies (one in the US is Personal-TeX). However, I haven't seen >the Slavic fonts from Personal-TeX. Perhaps someone else has more >info on obtaining fonts from the Metafoundry. When I was at Stanford, I talked to a former OCLC employee and acquaintance of Georgia Tobin. Apparently, OCLC does not wish to be in the business of typeface distribution and the status of all the Metafoundry fonts is in doubt. Also, since the fonts were developed using "old" MF, they cannot be regenerated by the end-user (for e.g., tuning to the output device). However, the University of Washington's Cyrillic font is now available. It is being distributed by the AMS as a replacement to the old AMS Cyrillic. I haven't seen any samples of it myself, but I'm told that it's quite good. Also, the sources are available on request. Contact Ralph Youngen, rey@math.ams.com for more details. -dh -- "Odi et amo, quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior" -Catullus D.A. Hosek. UUCP: uunet!jarthur!dhosek Internet: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu