[Fwd: CM-Super font package v0.3.0 released]

[Fwd: CM-Super font package v0.3.0 released]

[Tobias Burnus]

For the impatient:
  ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: CM-Super font package v0.3.0 released
Date:    Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:18:21 +0400
From:    Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vsu.ru>
To: CyrTeX-en@vsu.ru, CyrTeX-ru@vsu.ru
Cc:      tex-fonts@math.utah.edu, tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de

Hi,

the new version of the CM-Super package is finally available at
CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/cm-super
(currently at least the dante CTAN node contains the package
installed)

It contains Type 1 fonts which cover entirely EC, TC and LH fonts
(see the README for more information).

Compared to the similar package Tt2001 which was recently installed on
CTAN:fonts/ps-type1/ec, this package

* covers much bigger set of fonts (all cyrillic encodings are added,
  and eventually also other encodings like greek and vietnamese)
* has the fonts optimized and hinted
* has more exact (non-integer) glyph widths and more correct
  parameters like ItalicAngle, Weight, isFixedPitch, etc.
* has more correct (AGL-compliant) glyph names (esp. for non-EC
  fonts), which makes the fonts usable in non-TeX applications, too
* is more compact (contains all glyphs from one font shape combined in
  one PFB file -- superfont). if one will use the approach with
  separate files for all supported encodings, the package will be 6
times
  bigger in size (and in number of font files).
  while supporting much bigger number of glyphs than Tt2001 package,
  the CM-Super package is even smaller! (partially because of font
  optimization)
* contains some additional glyph variants like german "sharp s"
  which looks like in CM fonts
* includes AFM files (useful for non-TeX applications)

[but Tt2001 package contains some additional non-EC and non-TC fonts
which are not and will not be covered by CM-Super package]

Changes from previous version:

2001-10-11  Vladimir Volovich  <vvv@vsu.ru>

	* Version 0.3.0 released and uploaded to CTAN.

	* Generated AFM metric files.

	* Changed lenIV to 0 to reduce font sizes (requires non-outdated
	Postscript interpreters).

2001-10-10  Vladimir Volovich  <vvv@vsu.ru>

	* Generated precise (non-integer) widths for all glyphs in PFB
	files to match TFM widths (using continuous fraction approximation).
	Corrected width of space glyph to match default TeX font space width.

2001-09-29  Vladimir Volovich  <vvv@vsu.ru>

	* Added glyph variants guillemotleft.cyr, guillemotright.cyr from
	LH fonts (french guillemets are curly, but the cyrillic ones are
	straight).

Best,
v.