> Two changes:
>   1) \texteuro
>   2) GPL in musixdoc and musix*.tex sources and in main *.mf routines.
> 
> > I notice that you still used the bitmapped fonts in making musixdoc.pdf.
> > When I took over the software section of the archive, I made a pdf of
> > musixtex.doc 1.03 using postscript fonts:
> 
> You are welcome to do it but only as AN ALTERNATIVE. In fact, I
> experience that several users of Acrobat Read DO NOT have all fonts, and
> this is far more likely with the PostScript fonts for MuysixTeX.
> Now, since the PDF of musixdoc is supposed to be read by people who have
> NOT already installed musixtex, I state that it must be readable by
> Acrobat whatever postscript fonts they have. Otherwise you prove people
> with a black box whose key in locked inside!

no.  see below.

> > http://icking-music-archive.sunsite.dk/software/musixtex/musixdoc.pdf
> > 
> > Postscript fonts have two major advantages in pdf files:
> > 
> > 1.  The entire text in the pdf can be searched. This is really a big step
> > forward.
> > 2.  When you view the pdf on screen with adobe acrobat, it looks a lot
> > better.
> 
> Yes, but the bitmap fonts appear on the sceen of anybody, regardless of
> the fonts he has installed.
> Thus, using PostScript fonts is OK for anything, EXCEPT musixdoc.

i *never* distill tex-related things without embedding the fonts my
document is using.  if the fonts are embedded, then they're available
to the reader, so your objection is invalid -- the only difference
with bitmapped fonts is that they're far harder to read on screen.

> > I encourage you to try out the new postscript fonts.

i do too.
_______________________________________________
TeX-music mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://sunsite.dk/mailman/listinfo/tex-music

Reply via email to