Return-Path: Received: from video.uic.vsu.ru ([62.76.169.38] verified) by vsu.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.2b8) with ESMTP id 1172810; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:34:40 +0300 Sender: vvv@video.uic.vsu.ru To: (Cyrillic TeX Users Group) Cc: malyshev@mx.ihep.su Subject: Re: Malyshev's t2 fonts References: From: Vladimir Volovich Date: 20 Dec 1999 15:35:15 +0300 In-Reply-To: Laurent Siebenmann's message of "Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:58:40 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 29 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0802 (Gnus v5.8.2) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii "LS" == Laurent Siebenmann writes: LS> Joking aside, I agree that Malyshev's use if the name t2 is LS> indefensible. He should at least change the name to something LS> like m2. LS> Then the public can judge the performance of his offering on it LS> merits and not on his name borrowing! i don't really think that Basil borrowed the name T2. :) his virtual fonts can be named like t2r10 etc (which is okay; as long as he does not distribute the file t2enc.def, there is no T2 encoding known to LaTeX). i was talking about some inaccuracies in encoding of the t2r10 virtual fonts, which did not follow T2A encoding (and thus could not serve as a valid substitute for if) last time i checked. again, i do not speak about missing cyrillic glyphs (which may be empty in virtual fonts if there are no real glyphs in type1 fonts, and which is again acceptable), -- i only speak about some slots in t2r10 which were filled with glyphs not compatible with T2A encoding. i will check the latest t2r10 etc virtual fonts in BaKoMa distribution, and will report if there are still such incompatibilities. (note also that t2r10 virtual fonts are part of BaKoMa TeX and thus are shareware; the c1fonts are free, and they also use Basil's free type1 cmcyr fonts available at CTAN:fonts/cyrillic/cmcyr :)