tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) (02/27/90)
I have recently been looking at Knuth's `Concrete Mathematics', which is set with TeX and fonts I believe are a a variation of the `CM metafont', and are anyway very attractive. What is the availability of these fonts? Are they on recent TeX tapes, or is the mf source available? Thanks --tim Tim Bradshaw. ARPA: tim%ed.cstr@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk UUCP: ...!uunet!mcvax!ukc!cstr!tim JANET: tim@uk.ac.ed.cstr "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?"
dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (dhosek) (02/27/90)
In article <TIM.90Feb26211431@watt.cstr.ed.ac.uk> tim@cstr.ed.ac.uk (Tim Bradshaw) writes: >I have recently been looking at Knuth's `Concrete Mathematics', which >is set with TeX and fonts I believe are a a variation of the `CM >metafont', and are anyway very attractive. What is the availability >of these fonts? Are they on recent TeX tapes, or is the mf source >available? Users with FTP capabilities can obtain them from ymir.claremont.edu in [anonymous.tex.mf.concrete]. They are also available from Jon Radel: Radel Contact: Jon Radel Postal Address: P.O. Box 2276 Reston, VA 22090 Notes: Software is distributed on 5.25" 360K floppy disks. For floppies sent with a return mailer, there is a charge of $1.50/floppy U.S. orders, $2/floppy elsewhere. For orders where floppies are supplied by Jon Radel, there is a charge of $5/floppy for U.S., Mexican and Canadian orders, $6/floppy elsewhere. Since the original poster is from the UK, I suggest that he try to obtain the files from the Aston archive on Janet (FTP from uk.ac.aston.tex). -dh -- Important note: The Anti-Social Committee will not be meeting this week. UUCP: uunet!jarthur!dhosek Internet: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) (02/27/90)
The MF source code for the Concrete Math fonts is available for anonymous FTP on labrea.stanford.edu, in the directory pub/tex/local/cm. The Euler fonts (used for formulas) may be available from the AMS. -- Joe Weening Computer Science Dept. weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford University
piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum) (02/28/90)
In article <TIM.90Feb26211431@watt.cstr.ed.ac.uk>, tim@cstr (Tim Bradshaw) writes:
`I have recently been looking at Knuth's `Concrete Mathematics', which
`is set with TeX and fonts I believe are a a variation of the `CM
`metafont', and are anyway very attractive. What is the availability
`of these fonts? Are they on recent TeX tapes, or is the mf source
`available?
`
They are available from the clarkson archive. Directory tex-fonts, the
filenames are:
ccr5.mf The fonts and macros for Concreate Mathematics
ccr6.mf
ccr7.mf
ccr8.mf
ccr9.mf
ccr10.mf
cccsc10.mf
ccmi10.mf
ccsl10.mf
ccti10.mf
ccslc9.mf
gkpmac.tex
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Telefax: +31-30-513791 Internet: piet@cs.ruu.nl (*`Pete')housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel) (03/01/90)
In article <TIM.90Feb26211431@watt.cstr.ed.ac.uk>, tim@cstr (Tim Bradshaw) writes: >I have recently been looking at Knuth's `Concrete Mathematics', which >is set with TeX and fonts I believe are a a variation of the `CM >metafont', and are anyway very attractive. What is the availability >of these fonts? Are they on recent TeX tapes, or is the mf source >available? I haven't seen anybody mention that the metafont source for the Concrete fonts is available in the tex82/MFcontrib/metafonts/concrete directory of the UnixTeX distribution. Another thing... I'm certainly no typesetting expert, but the Concrete fonts seem (to me) to look just a little bit too heavy to exactly match with the Euler mathematics fonts. (Other than that, I agree that they are attractive.) Comments, anyone? Another thing, just out of curiousity... has anybody actually read this book without having it as a class text? (It's great stuff, but a real bear to get through, even with the marginal notes :-) -Peter S. Housel- housel@ecn.purdue.edu ...!pur-ee!housel
dhosek@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (dhosek) (03/02/90)
In article <19736@ea.ecn.purdue.edu> housel@en.ecn.purdue.edu (Peter S. Housel) writes: >Another thing... I'm certainly no typesetting expert, but the Concrete >fonts seem (to me) to look just a little bit too heavy to exactly >match with the Euler mathematics fonts. (Other than that, I agree that >they are attractive.) Comments, anyone? Well, since DEK had help from a designer at Addison-Wesley as well as suggestions from Hermann Zapf (who designed Euler), I'd say that chances are pretty good that it was done "right". The samples I saw (in TUGboat) looked fine to me. -dh -- Important note: The Anti-Social Committee will not be meeting this week. UUCP: uunet!jarthur!dhosek Internet: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu