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From: bothner@Navajo.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.text,net.unix
Subject: Re: TeX Fonts and Metafont
Message-ID: <280@Navajo.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 5-Dec-85 18:21:17 EST
Article-I.D.: Navajo.280
Posted: Thu Dec  5 18:21:17 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 04:26:52 EST
References: <255@stl.UUCP>
Reply-To: bothner@Navajo.UUCP (Per Bothner)
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Organization: Stanford University
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Keywords: TeX,Metafont,type fonts
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Summary: 

In article <255@stl.UUCP> dww@stl.UUCP (David Wright) writes:
>1 - Are the metafont files that the standard TeX fonts were made from
>generally available?  (the font tape distributed by Stanford has .PXL
>files of many sizes but no .MF files)?

Knuth has just finished the new "final" versions of the Computer Modern
font family, written in the new Metafont (at least they have just been
installed on the Dover printer). Thus the Metafont sources will presumably
shortly be available from whoever does the TeX distribution. (The reason
only PXL files were distributed is that the old fonts were written in the
old non-portable Metafont.)
	--Per Bothner
Bothner@su-score	...!glacier!navajo!bothner
Computer Science Dept, Stanford University Stanford CA 95305