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2Computer Modern PostScript Fonts
3(Adobe Type 1 format)
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6The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the Computer Modern fonts produced by
7and previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y, Inc. are now freely
8available for general use. This has been accomplished through the cooperation
9of a consortium of scientific publishers with Blue Sky Research and Y&Y.
10Members of this consortium include:
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12	Elsevier Science
13	IBM Corporation
14	Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
15	Springer-Verlag
16	American Mathematical Society (AMS)
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18In order to assure the authenticity of these fonts, copyright will be held
19by the American Mathematical Society. This is not meant to restrict in any
20way the legitimate use of the fonts, such as (but not limited to) electronic
21distribution of documents containing these fonts, inclusion of these fonts
22into other public domain or commercial font collections or computer
23applications, use of the outline data to create derivative fonts and/or
24faces, etc. However, the AMS does require that the AMS copyright notice be
25removed from any derivative versions of the fonts which have been altered in
26any way. In addition, to ensure the fidelity of TeX documents using Computer
27Modern fonts, Professor Donald Knuth, creator of the Computer Modern faces,
28has requested that any alterations which yield different font metrics be
29given a different name.
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31The AMS does not provide technical support or installation assistance
32beyond any installation instructions included in this file.  Installation
33and use of these fonts may require some technical expertise.  Review this
34READ.ME file in its entirety before undertaking an installation.
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37History
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39The PostScript versions of the Computer Modern fonts were produced in 1988
40by Blue Sky Research of Portland, Oregon, and Y&Y, Inc., of Concord,
41Massachusetts, who published the fonts in conjunction with their commercial
42implementations of the TeX program.
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44Character outlines were derived from high-resolution METAFONT-generated
45character bitmaps by the ScanLab application from Projective Solutions (Ian
46Morrison and Henry Pinkham), applied and corrected by Douglas Henderson of
47Blue Sky Research. Character hints were created by software from Y&Y
48(Berthold and Blenda Horn), with extensive hand work by Blenda Horn. Font
49engineering, production, and packaging were by Douglas Henderson and
50Berthold Horn.  The CMMI* fonts were revised in 1996 to conform to Knuth's
51changes to the greek delta and arrow characters.
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54Font Distributions
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56The canonical version of the Computer Modern PostScript Fonts is located on
57the AMS FTP server, ftp.ams.org, at /pub/tex/psfonts/cm.  These fonts are
58also available on the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) in
59fonts/cm/ps-type1/bluesky.
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61The following three files are in this directory for you to download:
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63cmps-textures.hqx         for use with Textures, contains fonts in standard
64				Macintosh Type 1 format
65cmps-oztex.hqx            for use with OzTeX, contains fonts in standard
66				Macintosh Type 1 format
67cmps-pc.zip               for use on a Windows or DOS system, contains fonts
68				in PFB format with PFM metrics files
69cmps-unix.tar.gz          for use on a Unix system, contains fonts in
70				PFB format with AFM metrics files
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73Each distribution includes a READ.ME file which contains instructions
74for installing the fonts.  Please review the READ.ME file in its entirety
75before undertaking to install the fonts on your system.
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