March 15, 1997

In this directory 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 D. 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 in this directory 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).

(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 J"org 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 new anti-aliasing
option of the Adobe Type Manager (version 4.0) and the PowerMac version of
Textures 1.8.1.

(13) Please read this file and the documentation in the CTAN directory
.../fonts/ec/src carefully before you send any e-mail to J"org 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/techhome.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@math.ethz.ch), but please
note that my free time for answering e-mails is quite limited. You may
write in German, if you like.

Uwe Schmock
Department of Mathematics
ETH-Zentrum, HG 51.2
CH-8092 Z"urich
Switzerland


COPYRIGHT (1997)

For these bitmap fonts, the original copyright notice of

              J"org 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.