Received: from webgate.proteosys.de (mail.proteosys-ag.com [62.225.9.49]) by lucy.proteosys (8.11.0/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id f0UNbZ714949 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:37:35 +0100 Received: by webgate.proteosys.de (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0UNcM729082 . for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:38:22 +0100 Received: from mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailserver1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.30]) by mailgate2.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0UNbY714258 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:37:34 +0100 (MET) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C08B15.9F538980" Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.8.56]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA20653 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:37:33 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (mail.listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.5]) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0UNbXM07037 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:37:33 +0100 (MET) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 Received: from mail.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.5) by mail.listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <14.751B43BC@mail.listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 0:37:30 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 484878 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:37:29 +0100 Received: from ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (mail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.234]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA09569 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:37:28 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.uni-heidelberg.de (relay.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.100.212]) by ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA48732 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:37:29 +0100 Received: from relay2.vsu.ru (mail.vsu.ru [62.76.169.17]) by relay.uni-heidelberg.de (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f0UNbPp06240 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:37:26 +0100 (MET) Received: by relay2.vsu.ru (Postfix, from userid 5) id 27F1F1A8F; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:37:22 +0300 (MSK) Received: (from vvv@localhost) by vvv.vsu.ru (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA12371; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 02:33:08 +0300 In-Reply-To: <14967.7486.689372.23588@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Lines: 33 References: <14965.53535.903052.219374@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> <14965.58948.408001.938171@spqr2.oucs.ox.ac.uk> <14967.7486.689372.23588@istrati.zdv.uni-mainz.de> Return-Path: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.4 X-Authentication-Warning: vvv.vsu.ru: vvv set sender to vvv@vvv.vsu.ru using -f Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: default font encoding Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 00:33:08 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Vladimir Volovich" Sender: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" To: "Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L" Reply-To: "Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 3674 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08B15.9F538980 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable "FM" =3D=3D Frank Mittelbach writes: FM> so in other words, to get to a good internal handling i have to FM> find proper free Type 1 fonts first and make them part of LaTeX. i made some experiments some time ago, and achieved quite satisfactory results in this direction: making type1 fonts from metafont fonts. the technology is based on auto-tracing high-resolution bitmaps -- such as 20000 dpi (from gf files produced by metafont), then optimizing and autohinting with fontlab. the resulting fonts look quite good (there are a few very small glitches which could be seen with very high magnification). they may need some hand work (which i will not be able to do due to the lack of time), but even without this i think that this could be better than nothing (at least :). i have some plans to produce type1 versions of "superfonts" which contain all glyphs from EC (T1), TC (TS1), LH (all cyrillic encodings), and cbgreek fonts, in all standard fontsizes (then all the EC,TC,LH,cbgreek fonts could be obtained by reencoding those type1 superfonts in pdftex or dvips). unfortunately, at the moment i'm busy with another projects. if there is some interest in this, however, i will put some test PFB file for one of the fonts, say, ecrm1000, so that you will be able to comment on the quality (may be, i'm overestimating it, and the whole approach is not satisfactory). so, if there is some interest, please tell me. :) Best regards, -- Vladimir. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C08B15.9F538980 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: default font encoding

"FM" =3D=3D Frank Mittelbach writes:

 FM> so in other words, to get to a good = internal handling i have to
 FM> find proper free Type 1 fonts first and = make them part of LaTeX.

i made some experiments some time ago, and achieved = quite satisfactory
results in this direction: making type1 fonts from = metafont fonts.

the technology is based on auto-tracing = high-resolution bitmaps --
such as 20000 dpi (from gf files produced by = metafont), then
optimizing and autohinting with fontlab.

the resulting fonts look quite good (there are a few = very small
glitches which could be seen with very high = magnification). they may
need some hand work (which i will not be able to do = due to the lack of
time), but even without this i think that this could = be better than
nothing (at least :).

i have some plans to produce type1 versions of = "superfonts" which
contain all glyphs from EC (T1), TC (TS1), LH (all = cyrillic
encodings), and cbgreek fonts, in all standard = fontsizes (then all the
EC,TC,LH,cbgreek fonts could be obtained by = reencoding those type1
superfonts in pdftex or dvips).

unfortunately, at the moment i'm busy with another = projects. if there
is some interest in this, however, i will put some = test PFB file for
one of the fonts, say, ecrm1000, so that you will be = able to comment
on the quality (may be, i'm overestimating it, and = the whole approach
is not satisfactory).

so, if there is some interest, please tell me. = :)

        Best = regards, -- Vladimir.

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