lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) (06/30/91)
Note: as usual, to save space, this is not a full diff or patch.
Current release of mf-list is: 1.10
New Font entries:
Japanese, Korean, Times
Changed font entries:
Babel, Chinese, Cirth, Helvetica
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RCS file: mf-fonts,v
retrieving revision 1.7
diff -c -r1.7 mf-fonts
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! A PC program, CAPTURE, turns HPGL files into PK format, US$130 from
! Micro Programs Inc., 251 Jackson Ave., Syosset, NY 11791 U.S.A.
! Metaplot can take pen-plotter files and prouce metafont files; contact
! wilcox@cis.ohio-state.edu
Kinch Cmputer Company sell .pk fonts derived from PostScript fonts.
! Kinch Computer Co., 501 S. Meadow St.Ithaca, NY 14850 U.S.A.
! telephone: +1 607 273 0222; fax: +1 607 273 0484
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+ * Japanese
+ 61 Japanese fonts (I'm told)
+
* Russian (Cyrillic)
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Subject: Fonts: Chinese
! Poor Man's TeX generates Chinese Metafont characters
ftp: blackbox.hacc.washington.edu (128.95.200.1): cd pub/poorman (??)
+ Poor Man's TeX Chinese has been extended to support Big5 format;
+ pre-generated 300dpi Simplified and Traditional GB fonts are available for ftp.
+
+ ftp: crl.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.14); pub/misc/pmtex-1.1.tar.Z
+ ftp: crl.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.14); pub/chinese/fonts/pmt-{300dpi,tfm}
+
ChTeX is a set of macros and fonts for typesetting Chinese under TeX.
It only supports PostScript, and requires a modivied dvi2ps. You write
your article with PinYin.
Included are source, fonts, VMS binary for 5.2, DOS binary, etc. There is
! also support for X-Windows; contact mliesher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher).
! ftp: crl.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.14); pub/chinese/{dvi2ps-3.2,ChTeX-1.1}.tar.Z
! ftp neon.stanford.edu (36.28.0.92); ChTeX.tar.Z
Subject: Fonts: Cirth
This is a Tolkien font based on Anglo-Saxon `Futharc' runes.
! Julian Bradfield has alpha versions of both Tengwar [q.v.] and Cirth runes.
! Please do not make these widely availble yet -- they aren't ready.
! ftp: ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk (129.215.160.150) export/jcb/Elvish.tar.Z
! ftp: (or the individual files instead in the same directory)
! Janet-niftp: uk.ac.ed.lfcs user=ftp pass=user80 export/jcb/Elvish.tar.Z
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Subject: Fonts: Helvetica
Produced by the Metafoundry and sold commercially.
! The Metafoundry is no longer extant, and the sources to these and their other
! fonts are not available. Email me if you need more information; Rick Tobin
! is on the net, but the connection is unreliable.
Subject: Fonts: Hewlett Packard LaserJet Format
You will need to generate tfm files for these in order to use them with TeX,
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+ Subject: Fonts: Japanese
+
+ Japanese METAFONT code for 61 fonts is available from many sources, including:
+
+ ftp: SIMTEL (tenex) (192.88.110.20) tex/jemtex2.zip
+ ftp: wuarchive (binary) (128.252.135.4) file mirrors/msdos/tex/jemtex2.zip
+ ftp: utsun (binary) (133.11.11.11) file TeX/jemtex2.zip
+ ftp: ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23) file tex/babel/japanese/jemtex2.zip
+
+ Pregenerated Kanji fonts at 300dpi are available --
+ ftp: crl.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.14); pub/japanese/fonts/pmt-{tfm,300dpi}/*
+ See Also: Fonts, Chinese
+
+ Subject: Fonts: Korean
+
+ Poor Man's TeX (see under Fonts: Chinese) has been extended to support Hangul.
+ Pregenerated fonts only are available:
+ ftp: crl.nmsu.edu (128.123.1.14); pub/korean/pmtex-korean-fonts.tar.Z
+
+ See Also: Fonts, Chinese
+
Subject: Fonts: Malvern
An experimental sans-serif font by Damian Cugley (Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk).
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ftp: ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23): cd [anonymous.tex.mf.tengwar]
Julian Bradfield <jcb@lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk> also has both Tengwar and a
! prototype version of Cirth runes.
! See Fonts: Tengwar for details.
Subject: Fonts: Thai
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ftp: ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23): cd [anonymous.tex.babel.thai.rmit]
ftp: ymir.claremont.edu (134.173.4.23): cd [anonymous.tex.babel.thai.usl]
+ Subject: Fonts: Times
+
+ Formerly produced by the Metafoundry, which is no longer operating.
+ Pk (binary) files may be available commercialy; Georgina Tobin works as a
+ Metafont consultant and has since done more work on Times.
+ See Also: Fonts: Helvetica
+
--
Liam Quin, lee@sq.com, SoftQuad, Toronto, +1 416 963 8337
the barefoot programmer