[tex-live] Missing Courier AFMs found
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Tue May 9 00:22:46 CEST 2006
>>>>> "Frank" == Frank Küster <frank at kuesterei.ch> writes:
> That doesn't sound good:
> ,---- | You are hereby granted permission under the terms of the
> IBM/MIT X Consortium | Courier Typefont agreement to execute,
> reproduce, distribute, display, market, | sell and otherwise
> transfer copies of the IBM Courier font to third parties. `----
> This does not allow modification, not even with some requirements
> with name/identifier changes.
I even doubt that someone really wants to use these fonts. Typewriter
fonts are good for nothing else but typesetting computer programs.
But in IBM Courier you cannot distinguish between /quoteleft and
/quoteright at normal sizes (10pt...12pt). This makes it useless.
See: http://ms25.ath.cx/courier.pdf
Regards,
Reinhard
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