EC Fonts in Bitmap Form for Macintosh

On my home page you find the ec fonts, version 1.0, and the corresponding metrics for use with Textures on a Macintosh. The European Computer Modern Fonts and their Text Companion Fonts are intended to be as stable as the Computer Modern Fonts from Donald Knuth are. This means that there will be no changes to the font encoding or to the font metrics of the European Computer Modern Fonts (ec fonts). For the Text Companion Fonts (tc fonts), no characters will be removed, nor will their codepoints change. The metrics of the established symbols will not be changed either. Note that future releases of the tc fonts may contain more characters.

The Macintosh fonts on my home page are in a preliminary bitmap form until someone else provides them in a better form (PostScript Type 1, for example). They replace the older dc fonts. Please read on to avoid running into known problems. Copyright notices are at the end of this file.

  1. You need about 82.5 Megabytes on your hard disk for all the fonts and metrics. Think about downloading only the fonts with the design sizes you need. Using Suitcase 3.0 to manage and compress the fonts saves between 2/3 and 3/4 of the needed hard disk space.
  2. If you are using the metrics of the ec fonts, a Textures version prior to 1.8, and you experience a Textures crash, then you are probably using too many metrics and fonts altogether. Try to remove some of them from the TeX fonts folder or use EdMetrics to remove some of the metrics of the ec fonts (or update to Textures 1.8.x or 2.0.x).
  3. To use the ec fonts in LaTeX2e, use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} after the \documentclass command. Make sure that your LaTeX format file was built with the proper recent versions of the files t1cmdh.fd, t1cmfib.fd, t1cmfr.fd, t1cmr.fd, t1cmss.fd, t1cmtt.fd, t1cmvtt.fd, t1lcmss.fd, t1lcmtt.fd, ts1cmr.fd, ts1cmss.fd, ts1cmtt.fd and ts1cmvtt.fd. If in doubt, look into these files to check whether they refer to the ec fonts (and not to the older dc fonts).
  4. Note that the ec fonts use the Cork encoding, which is different from the computer modern encoding. The design goals of the Cork encoding are to allow as many languages as possible to be hyphenated correctly and to guarantee correct kerning for those languages. Therefore, the ec fonts include many ready-made accented letters. When you have installed the metrics and fonts and a version of LaTeX2e which uses the ec fonts, you should be able to typeset Jörg Knappen's documentation, which you should find in the directory .../fonts/ec/src of any CTAN site and its partial mirrors (the new documentation wasn't there on March 15, 1997).
  5. If the ec fonts don't print on your LaserWriter and your screen is set to colours, then set your screen to black and white or greys and try to print again. (This odd phenomenon shows up with some MacOS versions.)
  6. If you see other fonts than you wanted on the screen or on the print-out, you might be experiencing a font ID conflict. Quit all your programs, move all your fonts into the fonts folder of your system to resolve the ID conflicts, and move the fonts back to their original location. (You need MacOS 7.1 or newer for this to work.)
  7. The octal character positions 015, 040 and 200 are known to be problematical; be aware that these characters might not display correctly. On the screen, I always see the character from octal position 200 at octal position 040. But I haven't seen any wrong LaserWriter print-out so far.
  8. There are metrics for 568 fonts in the metrics suitcase. Putting this suitcase into the TeX fonts folder slows down the start up of Textures. If you are using the ec fonts only occasionally, place the metrics somewhere else and use the command "Add Fonts..." from Textures' "File" menu before you open a file which uses the metrics.
  9. Having all ec fonts in the fonts folder of your system folder can slow down your other programs considerably. Try to put the font suitcases you need into the TeX fonts folder or add the needed font suitcases with the "Add Fonts..." command from Textures' "File" menu before you open a file which uses the fonts.
  10. The single size fonts and the fonts with design sizes 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 10.95, 12 and 14.4 were created with Metafont using \mode=canonex. For best printing results, use these fonts at their design size on a 600dpi Apple LaserWriter Pro. The fonts with design sizes 17.28, 20.74, 24.88 and 29.86 were created with Metafont using \mode=cx for optimal results on the 300dpi Apple LaserWriter, because otherwise the font files would be quite large and their Macintosh size would be above 127, which causes display problems with Textures. The remaining fonts with design size 35.83 were created with Metafont using \mode=iw. You should be able to use the fonts on all kinds of Apple LaserWriters.
  11. Metafont doesn't create all the ec fonts with \mode=iw for the 144dpi Apple ImageWriter nor does it create the bitmap fonts at screen resolutions, sorry. But I added those fonts, which Metafont does create with \mode=iw, for a good screen preview at 200%. Hopefully, the MacOS or the Adobe Type Manager (ATM) scales the fonts to all other resolutions.
  12. The bitmap ec fonts seem to work good with the anti-aliasing option of the Adobe Type Manager (version 4.0) and the PowerMac version of Textures 1.8.1 and later.
  13. Please read this file and the documentation in the CTAN directory .../fonts/ec/src carefully before you send any e-mail to Jörg Knappen (knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de) concerning the Metafont resources of the ec fonts. A similar remark applies to e-mails to Blue Sky Research (help@bluesky.com for registered users) concerning ec font problems with Textures. Note that Blue Sky Research has a world wide web home page with technical support, which you can reach at the URL http://www.bluesky.com/techsupport/index.html if you have access to the Internet.
  14. Any comments or suggestions concerning this read-me file or concerning my conversion of the pk-files and the tfm-files of the ec fonts to Macintosh/Textures format are welcome (schmock@fam.tuwien.ac.at). You may write in German, if you like.
Happy TeXing

Uwe Schmock

COPYRIGHT (1997)

For these bitmap fonts, the original copyright notice of

Jörg Knappen
Unternehmensberatung
Barbarossaring 43
D-55118 Mainz
Federal Republic of Germany

and

Norbert Schwarz
Rechenzentrum Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum
Postfach 102148
Universitaetsstrasse 150
D-4630 Bochum 1
Federal Republic of Germany

applies, which you find in .../fonts/ec/src/copyrite.txt of any CTAN site and its partial mirrors.

WARRANTY

There is NO WARRANTY for the ec fonts, to the extent permitted by applicable law. Except when otherwise stated in writing, the authors provides the program `as is' without warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with you. Should the program prove defective, you assume the cost of all necessary servicing, repair or correction.

In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing will the authors be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of any use of the program or out of inability to use the program (including but not limited to loss of data or data being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or by third parties as a result of a failure of the program to operate with any other programs), even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.