X-VM-VHeader: ("Date:" "Resent-Date:" "From:" "Sender:" "Resent-From" "Originally-From:" "Originally-To:" "To:" "Apparently-To:" "Cc:" "Subject:") nil X-VM-Bookmark: 60 X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1874" "Thu" "1" "October" "92" "02:16:51" "CET" "Don Hosek" "DHOSEK@HMCVAX.CLAREMONT.EDU" nil "40" "Re: additional fonts in distribution" "^Date:" nil nil "10"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA03970; Thu, 1 Oct 92 02:17:03 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA20265; Thu, 1 Oct 92 02:16:45 +0100 Message-Id: <9210010116.AA20265@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1756; Thu, 01 Oct 92 02:17:15 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 1748; Thu, 01 Oct 92 02:17:12 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 1744; Thu, 01 Oct 92 02:17:09 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 02:16:51 CET From: Don Hosek Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of Subject: Re: additional fonts in distribution Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 803 -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. The \special-driven graphics primitives should be developed with the DVI drivers committee. As for dealing with drivers which do not support these specials, I would recommend a DVI processor which (a) translates these into specials which _can_ be interpretted by the driver or (b) translates these commands into a suitable set of graphic character setting commands. This program should be written in eithher Pascal WEB or C WEB for maximum ease of porting. Advantages include the ability to produce much better quality graphics and some savings in memory usage. The big savings will more likely be in processing time since a dedicated program can more easily handle such typesetting than TeX macros can. Memory savings will be negligible according to studies done by the DVI driver standards committee in 89 or 90 or so. -dh Don Hosek dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu Quixote Digital Typography 714-621-1291