[tex-live] amsfonts again
Staszek Wawrykiewicz
staw at gust.org.pl
Tue Feb 15 06:46:49 CET 2005
I've reinserted provisionally wncy* fonts from AMS, which went to the
black hole in TL2004. I also added wncyr.tpm for that package. As I wrote
before, we have pretty mess with amsfonts:
1. amsfonts package doesn't contain fonts, which could be missleading
2. amsfonts belongs to collection-latex and also scheme-context, but
without fonts is hardly usable
3. amssymbols package belongs to collection-fontsrecommended
4. euler package belongs to collection-latexrecommended
5. cmextra package belongs to collection-fontsextra
6. symbol package is messed with some stuff which belongs to amssymbols.
I'd tend to merge all amsfonts stuff into one, consistent package, but
I understand well why we are in such unhappy state:
1. for building .tpm files we have some directory name clashes, like
fonts/[afm|type1]/bluesky/ which contains also cm/ subdirectories
(but "cm" is, and should be, the different package)
2. for the above reason ams/symbols was renamed into ams/amssymbols
(unfortunate, because there isn't clash between "symbol" and "symbols")
3. for ams/cyrillic we cannot use "cyrillic" because of LaTeX's cyrillic
package (that's why I provisionally named it wncyr)
What can we do? I still think that "classical" amsfonts stuff (still not
only used by amslatex!, please consider also ConTeXt and I have many
examples of topology articles using still old amstex) should be merged
into *one* package, and frozen in the way:
1. afm|type1 files should go into ams/ directory, like in tfm/ and source/
2. do not know what to do with cyrillic (because of name clash with
"cyrillic" package when making .tpm file)
Perhaps we can merge all files in just ams/ in
fonts/[afm|source|tfm|type1]. Please observe that CTAN's ams/symbols
renaming into amssymbols was already done for TL.
Please send comments, or should I do my radical work to clean that?
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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
StaW at gust.org.pl
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