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Subject: Announcement of final report on Math Font Encoding
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  We are pleased to present the final report on ``Math Font Encoding''
  produced by Justin Ziegler for the \LaTeX3 project.
  This document is electronically available from the CTAN hosts in the
  directory
  \begin{verbatim}
    /tex-archive/info/ltx3pub
  \end{verbatim}
  To process the document you will need the files
  \begin{verbatim}
      l3d007.tex
      l3ms002.cls
  \end{verbatim}
  The document is about 90 pages long. In one of the appendices, there
  are three font tables using fonts which are often not part of a
  LaTeX installation. However, you can process the rest of the
  document successfully without them (just ignore the error messages
  they generate:-).

  The rest of this announcment is lifted straight from the preface of the
  document.

  Justin has worked for three months at the Johannes Gutenberg
  University Mainz. His work was generously sponsored by GUTenberg
  (The French \TeX{} Users Group) and by the ZDV of the University
  of Mainz (Data Processing Center), the latter providing Justin with
  office space and taking care of the administrative details.

  In the past years a lot of work went into integrating  new fonts into
  the \TeX{} system. Only five years ago, typesetting with \TeX{}
  basically meant typesetting in Computer Modern. Nowadays many users can
  choose  (at least theoretically) from several thousands of fonts.
  Today, \NFSS{} is the standard font selection in \LaTeX{} and due to
  this mechanism and the fontinst-package by Alan Jeffrey virtually every
  PostScript font, in fact, every font for which a \texttt{tfm}-file can
  be obtained, can be used, out of the box, with \LaTeX.

  But for these thousand text fonts there are only five font families for
  use in math formulas
  to go with them. Even worse, every of these math font sets are encoded
  in a different way making it nearly impossible even for an expert \TeX{}
  user to use different fonts for math in different jobs.

  The work undertaken by Justin is the first of several steps to solve
  the problems at hand, the final goal being the development of a system
  that allows the user
  to change math fonts as painlessly as it is now possible with text
  fonts.

  Based on Justin's analysis and his proposal, the \LaTeX3 Project is now
  undertaking to provide a prototype implementation for math fonts,
  starting with the Computer Modern fonts as well as the Euler Math fonts.
  We expect this implementation to be available for public usage
  during 1995-96.


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  Mainz, December 6, 1994\\[5pt]
  For the \LaTeX3 Project\\
  Frank Mittelbach\\
  Technical Director \LaTeX3 Project
  \end{flushright}


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