CM-Super Type 1 fonts

[Vladimir Volovich]

Hi,

The CM-Super package could be downloaded from
ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/
you could try the mirror if connection to vsu.ru is slow:
ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/TeX/RussianSupport/font-packs/cm-super/
(and soon it will available at CTAN).

Hopefully these fonts will be useful for Lout users, too.

README follows:
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                     CM-Super font package
                     version 0.2.0 (September 21, 2001)

  Copyright (c) 2001 Vladimir Volovich <address@hidden>.

  This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
  (at your option) any later version.

  This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA

The CM-Super package contains Type 1 fonts converted from METAFONT
fonts and covers entire EC/TC and LH fonts (Computer Modern font
families). All European and Cyrillic writings are covered. Each Type 1
font program contains ALL glyphs from the following standard LaTeX
font encodings: T1, TS1, T2A, T2B, T2C, X2, and also Adobe
StandardEncoding (583 glyphs per non-SC font and 466 glyphs per SC
font), and could be reencoded to any of these encodings using standard
dvips or pdftex facilities (the corresponding support files are also
included).

The goal was to provide full support for a wide number of fonts used
in LaTeX, and at the same time minimize the number and total size of
font files. Each Type 1 font shares all common glyphs which are present
in supported encodings. E.g. Latin letters, Russian letters, accents
and a number of other glyphs which are present in more than one font
encoding are stored only once in Type 1 fonts.

These Type 1 fonts could be used as an immediate replacement for
LaTeX's EC, TC, and LH fonts to create Postscript and PDF documents
with vector fonts (if you used METAFONT versions of EC, TC or LH
fonts, no changes to your LaTeX documents are required to use these
Type 1 fonts once you have them installed). You will still need the
METAFONT sources of these fonts to be able to generate needed TFM
metric files (once you have them generated, METAFONT will not be
used). You could also prepare EPS or PDF illustrations in your
favorite applications with texts written using these fonts, and then
include them in your LaTeX documents. These fonts could be used not
only in TeX-related applications, but also as all other Type 1 text
fonts, e.g. in Windows (and you will be able to typeset multilingual
texts using them).

Font file names correspond to the scheme used in EC fonts, with the
first two letters "sf" ("super font") instead of "ec".  E.g., sfrm1000.pfb
contains all glyphs from:
ecrm1000, tcrm1000, larm1000, lbrm1000, lcrm1000, rxrm1000.

The third and fourth letters in the font name correspond to font shape.
The list of provided font shapes is included below:

  rm:  Computer Modern Roman
  sl:  Computer Modern Slanted
  ti:  Computer Modern Italic
  cc:  Computer Modern Caps and Small Caps
  ui:  Computer Modern Unslanted Italic
  sc:  Computer Modern Slanted Caps and Small Caps
  ci:  Computer Modern Classical Serif Italic
  bx:  Computer Modern Bold Extended
  bl:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted
  bi:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Italic
  xc:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Caps and Small Caps
  oc:  Computer Modern Bold Extended Slanted Caps and Small Caps
  rb:  Computer Modern Roman Bold
  bm:  Computer Modern Roman Bold Variant
  ss:  Computer Modern Sans Serif
  si:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Slanted
  sx:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended
  so:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Bold Extended Slanted
  tt:  Computer Modern Typewriter
  st:  Computer Modern Typewriter Slanted
  it:  Computer Modern Typewriter Italic
  tc:  Computer Modern Typewriter Caps and Small Caps
  vt:  Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter
  vi:  Computer Modern Variable Width Typewriter Italic
  dh:  Computer Modern Dunhill Roman
  fb:  Computer Modern Fibonacci Medium
  fs:  Computer Modern Fibonacci Slanted
  ff:  Computer Modern Funny Roman
  fi:  Computer Modern Funny Italic

Each font shape comes in 14 font sizes ranging from 5pt to 35.83pt (or
11 font sizes for typewriter fonts ranging from 8pt to 35.83pt).
Also, the following 13 one-sized font shapes are included:

  sflq8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation
  sfli8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined
  sflb8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold
  sflo8:     Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique
  sfltt8:    Computer Modern LaTeX Typewriter
  isflq8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Invisible
  isfli8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Inclined Invisible
  isflb8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Invisible
  isflo8:    Computer Modern SliTeX Sans Serif Quotation Bold Oblique Invisible
  isfltt8:   Computer Modern LaTeX Typewriter Invisible
  sfsq8:     Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation
  sfqi8:     Computer Modern Sans Serif Quotation Inclined
  sfssdc10:  Computer Modern Sans Serif Demi Condensed

Fonts were created using TeXtrace (based on AutoTrace and
Ghostscript), t1utils and a bunch of Perl scripts, and were optimized
and hinted using FontLab 3.1 provided by FontLab Ltd. The set of
UniqueID values was registered at Adobe. We use AGL compliant glyph
names when possible (there are some glyphs which are neither present
in AGL nor in Unicode).

I'd like to thank Peter Szabo for TeXtrace, Martin Weber for
AutoTrace, and FontLab Ltd. for providing a copy of FontLab.

It should be noted that while creating these fonts we intentionally
and on principle used only automatic methods which do not require font
designers talents. The aim was to use TOTALLY automatic conversion of
METAFONT fonts to Type 1 format, automatic optimization and hinting,
with the best achievable quality of final Type 1 fonts, to be able to
re-generate the fonts if necessary (e.g. when a new version of
original METAFONT fonts will be released).  Undoubtedly, there are
fields for improvement of this approach, which we will use in future
versions of the fonts, but even now the fonts seem to look and print
quite good (we hope :-).

It appears that careless approach to FontLab's optimization and
auto-hinting facilities could lead to loss of quality of the original
font (some glyph shapes could be broken), so we used the most precise
optimization, and hope that optimized and hinted fonts are indeed
better than original traced fonts (also, they are significantly
smaller in size). So far, we did not find any bugs in optimized fonts.

Note that a small number of (fortunately, rarely used) fonts are not
included yet because of the bugs in EC font drivers which prevented
their generation. We plan to provide these missing fonts soon.
(Currently there are 376 Type 1 font files here, of total 401.)

The CM-Super package could be freely downloaded from
ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/font-packs/cm-super/
(and soon from CTAN)
(see also ftp://ftp.vsu.ru/pub/tex/README for a list of mirrors)
The size of the entire package is about 54Mb.

To install this package in teTeX or TeX Live systems, copy all Type 1
fonts (*.pfb files) to .../texmf/fonts/type1/public/cm-super/
directory and install the MAP (*.map) and ENC (*.enc) files to their
usual place (e.g. under .../texms/dvips/cm-super/), and instruct dvips
and pdftex to use these MAP files (e.g. using the "updmap" script).
Do not forget to update the texmf filename database (run mktexlsr).

If you wish to use the original CM germandbls (sharp s) shape, rather
than the new EC one, change "germandbls" to "germandbls.alt" in t1.enc.

Although this package is provided AS IS, WITHOUT WARRANTY (as
explained in the file PUBLIC), we welcome your comments and bug
reports which should be sent to the email address given above.

Happy TeXing!
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