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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* 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* Changed lenIV to 0 to reduce font sizes (requires non-outdated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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Added glyph variants guillemotleft.cyr, guillemotright.cyr from
LH fonts (french guillemets are curly, but the cyrillic ones are
straight).
Best,
v.
