Re: CM fonts updated?

["Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>]

Following up on the discussion of cmex9.mf variants, I find this at
ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/:

ncftp /tex-archive > quote site index cmex9.mf
index cmex9.mf
NOTE. This index shows at most 20 lines. for a full list of files,
retrieve /tex-archive/FILES.byname
1995/10/23 |       6140 | fonts/amsfonts/sources/extracm/cmex9.mf
1996/07/24 |       4209 | fonts/cm/mf/cmex9.mf
1999/01/20 |         29 | fonts/cm/sauter/ready-mf/cmex9.mf
 (end of 'index cmex9.mf')

Notice that the more recent of the first two is smaller.

For the other problem font, ebigof.mf, there is no trace of it found
by "quote site index ebigof.mf".

The smaller cmex9.mf file begins with the significant two-line comment

% THIS IS THE OFFICIAL COMPUTER MODERN SOURCE FILE cmex9.mf BY D E KNUTH.
% IT MUST NOT BE MODIFIED IN ANY WAY UNLESS THE FILE NAME IS CHANGED!

while the larger one has an AMS file header labeled version 2.2 dated
4-Jan-1995.

Ignoring the comment lines, diff finds only these differences:

< font_identifier:="CMEX V2.2"; font_size 9pt#;
---
> font_identifier:="CMEX"; font_size 9pt#;
56c25
< crisp#:=0/36pt#;          % diameter of serif corners
---
> crisp#:=0pt#;      % diameter of serif corners

Lines marked < are AMS, and those marked > are DEK.