X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["949" "Fri" "11" "March" "1994" "08:49:51" "-0500" "bbeeton" "BNB@MATH.AMS.ORG" nil "20" "Re: AMS-LaTeX 1.1 patch for LaTeX2e" "^Date:" nil nil "3" nil nil nil nil] nil) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (mailserv) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/24.6.93) id AA07363; Fri, 11 Mar 94 15:00:05 +0100 Received: from mail.cs.tu-berlin.de by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0-sc/03.06.93) id AA21842; Fri, 11 Mar 94 14:59:34 +0100 Received: from tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de by mail.cs.tu-berlin.de with SMTP id AA19889 (5.65c8/IDA-1.4.4(mail.m4[1.12]) for <@MAIL.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE:Schoepf@SC.ZIB-BERLIN.DE>); Fri, 11 Mar 1994 14:59:32 +0100 Message-Id: <199403111359.AA19889@mail.cs.tu-berlin.de> Received: from TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE by tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 3310; Fri, 11 Mar 94 14:58:53 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin MAILER@DHDURZ1) by TUBVM.CS.TU-BERLIN.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 3309; Fri, 11 Mar 1994 14:58:53 +0200 Received: from VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (NJE origin LISTSERV@DHDURZ1) by VM.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 2676; Fri, 11 Mar 1994 14:57:56 +0000 Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <01H9U0Z50UQA8Y6LKW@MATH.AMS.ORG> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 08:49:51 -0500 From: bbeeton Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: AMS-LaTeX 1.1 patch for LaTeX2e Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1588 note: although i am at ams, and in fact working on the project to provide 256-character math fonts, this is not an official policy statement. peter dalgaard asks if ams-latex 1.2 will support dc fonts (t1 encoding). because the purpose of ams-latex is to set mathematical material, it doesn't make a lot of sense to implement a font system that doesn't yet provide appropriate math fonts. also, ams has a policy of accepting submissions prepared in ams-latex, and because of the absence of compatible math fonts, or even compatible text fonts for the hardware being used, would not be able to process -- in a production environment -- submissions utilizing dc fonts. for those reasons, i don't believe that version 1.2 will provide a native implementation of the dc fonts. i would certainly expect this position to be reconsidered as soon as compatible math fonts are available. -- bb