New round of debugging of the dc fonts

[KNAPPEN@VKPMZD.kph.Uni-Mainz.DE]

  Since Norbert Schwarz has officially stated (at the Dante meeting in 
spring '94 at M"unster) that he has not the time to develop the dc fonts 
further, I have offered to take the work over for the next round of 
debugging.  I want to start this round now, if there are any objections 
please speak up.

  This announce is sent to several lists, apologies to those, who receive 
multiple copies of it.

  I include a statement of intent.

Yours, J"org Knappen.
knappen@vkpmzd.kph.uni-mainz.de

Statement of intent:

  Creating dc fonts version 1.2

The dc-fonts version 1.2 shall contain the following:

* Fixes to the known and reported bugs

* New ligatures as proposed by Alan Jeffrey

* Improvement of quality, especially but not only, for the eastern european
  letters

* A first incarnation of the `text companion font encoding'. This first 
  incarnation will leave many slots open reserved for further 
  standardisation.

If time and other resources allow, the dc-fonts version 1.2 may contain

* Additional parameter files for new styles, thus completing the family

* Different shaped accents for capitals and lowercase letters

The dc-fonts 1.2 will *not* contain 

* Any changes to the agreed Cork encoding, allthough there are know
  shortcomings of it

* New math fonts. This is considered a separate project.

* A bold typewriter font

The dc-fonts version 1.2 should be completed and presented at the 
EuroTeX'95 meeting in beginning of September.