X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["606" "Fri" "5" "November" "93" "16:26:12" "GMT" "spqr@FTP.TEX.AC.UK" "spqr@FTP.TEX.AC.UK" nil "11" "Re: Default Availability of PostScript fonts under NFSS" "^Date:" nil nil "11"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA01411; Fri, 5 Nov 93 18:12:18 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA00993; Fri, 5 Nov 93 18:12:13 +0100 Message-Id: <9311051712.AA00993@sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 7122; Fri, 05 Nov 93 18:10:54 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2604; Fri, 05 Nov 93 18:10:47 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 2602; Fri, 05 Nov 93 18:10:45 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Fri, 5 Nov 93 16:26:12 GMT From: spqr@FTP.TEX.AC.UK Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple Recipients of Subject: Re: Default Availability of PostScript fonts under NFSS Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1097 dean ayres wants bold slanted Tiimes as standard in NFSS2. and bold small caps. why not? since i sort of maintain that area, I will add them for all the standard fonts. but i was rather waiting for Alan Jeffrey's fontinst package to settle down, so that the TFMs and VFs would come from that rather than my stopgap vpltovpl program. Alan's stuff is more sophisticated, albeit of Byzantine complexity and slow. So i'd suggest waiting until the new year and then reissuing the PS fonts collection with LaTeX2e itself, rather than tinkering now. maybe Alana will take over this area nayway. sebastian rahtz