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- Some Notes to the DC fonts, version 1.1, 1992-03-24
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-
- Attention ! This is the second version of the DC font
- family. Not all will be error free.
- Therefore comments and error reports
- are wellcome to the address below.
-
- Norbert Schwarz
-
-
- The DC fonts, which are the first (pre) release of the EC fonts,
- contain the text fonts of the "computer modern font family"
- with a coding scheme, that has been defined in the Cork meeting of
- TUG 1990 the "TeX 256 international character set".
-
- The fonts are generated without specific driver files, like "dcr10.mf".
- Instead a interpolation algorithm is used to set up the needed
- parameters. A driver file has to contain only a specification of
- "gensize" and a call to the global driver file.
- A TeX run with the file "dcstdedt.tex" sets up a standard set of
- size specifying files which call the parameter files.
- By editing the file DCSTDEDT.TEX the wished size set can be
- customized easily.
-
- It is recommended to use "dxbase.mf" for installing a new
- base file that is needed during the Metafont runs.
- "DXBASE" and "CMBASE" are not compatible. "DXBASE" needs
- the plain Metafont macros.
-
- To generate a font "dcr60" a file "dcr60.mf" with the contents
-
- "gensize:=60; generate dcr"
-
- is needed. To get a set with very small sizing steps only some files like
-
- dcr10p1.mf containg: gensize:=10.1; generate dcr
- dcr10p2.mf containg: gensize:=10.2; generate dcr
- dcr10p3.mf containg: gensize:=10.3; generate dcr
- dcr10p4.mf containg: gensize:=10.4; generate dcr
- dcr10p5.mf containg: gensize:=10.5; generate dcr
-
- are needed ...
-
-
- Some hints to the files:
- ------------------------
-
- 1. All DX-files contain macros and shape definitions, exspecially
- "dxbase.mf" is the new base macro set.
-
- 2. The DC-files contain the global font parameters used by
- the interpolation algorithm and are included after specifying
- the "gensize":
-
- DCB .MF bold
- DCBX .MF bold extended
- DCBXSL .MF bold extended slanted
- DCBXTI .MF italic bold extended
- DCCSC .MF caps and small caps
- DCDUNH .MF dunhill
- DCFF .MF funny roman
- DCFI .MF funny italic
- DCFIB .MF fibonacci
- DCITT .MF italic typewriter type
- DCR .MF roman
- DCSL .MF slanted
- DCSLTT .MF slanted typewriter type
- DCSS .MF sans serife
- DCSSBX .MF sans serife bold extended
- DCSSI .MF sans serife slanted
- DCTCSC .MF typewriter caps and small caps
- DCTI .MF italic
- DCTT .MF typewriter type
- DCU .MF italic unslanted
- DCVTT .MF variable typewriter type
-
- 3. DOK.TEX
-
- a description (in german) of the code table
-
-
- 4. GHYPHEN3.TEX
-
- hyphenation patterns for German, coded with respect to TeX 3.x
-
-
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- C O P Y R I G H T
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-
- General permission for use and non-profit redistribution is granted.
-
- Commercial use is generally granted, if a reference copy of the
- product using this material - for use by the Rechenzentrum
- of the Ruhr-Universitaet - is received.
-
-
- Norbert Schwarz
- Rechenzentrum Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
- Postfach 102148
- Universitaetsstrasse 150
- D-4630 Bochum 1
- West Germany
-
- Email (X.400):
-
- Norbert.Schwarz@RUBA.RZ.RUHR-UNI-BOCHUM.DBP.DE