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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 92 21:13:47 CET
From: Frank Mittelbach <MITTELBACH@MZDMZA.ZDV.UNI-MAINZ.DE>
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Subject:      additional fonts in distribution
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> Now I have a question for the organizers of this thread.  How do
> they feel about the possibility of having new fonts included as part
> of the standard distribution of LaTeX 3?  The fonts I have in mind
> are the new segment and arrowhead fonts used by Kris Rose in xypic.

I think there will be new fonts coming with LaTeX3 and they will be
part of the standard distribution. I do hope that by the time we have
finished there will be standard code pages for math symbols and we
will most certainly extend the picture drawing capabilities which also
needs fonts if it should be portable accross *all* installations.
Leslie and I spoke about the picture environment just last week when he
visited me. We think that LaTeX3 should support a much richer picture
environment which is based on interacting with PostScript via a
suitable set of specials. We will also approach driver developers to
support those specials for other output devices. But there will also
be an implementation of the LaTeX3 graphic primitives that solemnly
uses portable fonts. This means that, for example, an arbitray line
may come out slightly distorted when this option is in force (just
like in the current epic.sty) but this is better then nothing.

Frank Mittelbach