Received: by nummer-3.proteosys id <01C19443.9830A40C@nummer-3.proteosys>; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:44:18 +0100 In-Reply-To: "C. Christopher Rath"'s message of Fri, 10 Jan 92 09:58:00 -0500 <9201121720.AA28153@ufer.ZIB-Berlin.DE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.9830A40C" Return-Path: <@vm.gmd.de:LATEX-L@DHDURZ1.BITNET> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 x-vm-v5-data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil][nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: ec/dc fonts. Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1992 10:58:24 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Rainer Schoepf" Sender: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" To: "Rainer M. Schoepf" Reply-To: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 552 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.9830A40C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "C. Christopher Rath" wrote: In the recent discussion on fonts, Don H. and Rainer S. have referred = to the ec/dc fonts. In close to a year of following comp.text.tex I = can't ever recall seeing a reference to these fonts. Would someone mind = putting a couple of sentences together? Maybe ec/dc is just an abbreviation = that I'm not familiar with? This is interesting. ec are the successors to the cm fonts. With TeX3 and the use of it outside the english speaking countries it became mandatory to have 8bit fonts taht contain accented characters. In September 1989, at the European TeX conference at Cork, a working group aggreed on an encoding table for this. About one year ago, Norbert Schwarz released the first version of his Metafont sources for the dc text fonts, which are to become ec once they are finished. As for the math fonts: at the European TeX conference at Paris in Sep 91, a working group chaired by Barbara Beeton discussed the layout of the 8bit math fonts -- which has to be redone as well, given the imminent problems of cmex10. Barbara knows better than me what the current status is; I'm sure she will comment on it. Rainer ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.9830A40C Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ec/dc fonts.

"C. Christopher Rath" = <CRATH%BNR.CA@vm.gmd.de> wrote:

   In the recent discussion on fonts, Don H. = and Rainer S. have referred to
   the ec/dc fonts.  In close to a = year of following comp.text.tex I can't
   ever recall seeing a reference to these = fonts.  Would someone mind putting
   a couple of sentences together?  = Maybe ec/dc is just an abbreviation that
   I'm not familiar with?

This is interesting. ec are the successors to the cm = fonts. With TeX3
and the use of it outside the english speaking = countries it became
mandatory to have 8bit fonts taht contain accented = characters. In
September 1989, at the European TeX conference at = Cork, a working
group aggreed on an encoding table for this. About = one year ago,
Norbert Schwarz released the first version of his = Metafont sources for
the dc text fonts, which are to become ec once they = are finished. As
for the math fonts: at the European TeX conference at = Paris in Sep 91,
a working group chaired by Barbara Beeton discussed = the layout of the
8bit math fonts -- which has to be redone as well, = given the imminent
problems of cmex10.

Barbara knows better than me what the current status = is; I'm sure she
will comment on it.

Rainer

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