TeX and Lucida fonts

[krishan gopal goswami]

Dear Karl,

I would be happy to work on this, please let me know
more about this---what changes we are supposing in
text encodings and metrices?

Krishan Gopal

--- Karl Berry <karl at FREEFRIENDS.ORG> wrote:

> Regarding the Lucida fonts and TeX, the legal part
> is over and all is
> good for redistributing them.  Both TUG and at least
> one other TeX
> vendor will be making them available, while
> cooperating on keeping the
> underlying fonts compatible.  (Don't mean to be
> secretive, but it's not
> my place to make announcements except for TUG.)
>
> As far as the TUG Lucida distribution goes, the main
> job now is to
> update the (La)TeX support files.  The fonts are
> nearly identical to
> what Y&Y distributed, but there are a few changes
> (hopefully
> improvements!) in the text encodings and metrics.
> No changes are
> planned for the math fonts.
>
> I'd be very grateful if anyone here can volunteer to
> work on this for
> TUG with me.  We can't offer money, but at least
> you'll get a copy of
> the fonts out of it :), and of course grateful
> public acknowledgement.
> As far as a timeframe goes, I'm hoping that we'll be
> able to make the
> fonts available in the reasonably near future, i.e.,
> a couple/few weeks,
> but of course there are a lot of variables,
> including whether a
> volunteer comes forward :).
>
> If you're interested, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Karl
>
> P.S. In a way, it is strange to be writing to this
> list about it; the
> new distribution will not (completely) work on Y&Y
> installations, for a
> number of reasons.  So the macro updates will have
> to be done using
> something more current, e.g., teTeX, MiKTeX, TeX
> Live.  As far as the
> volunteer reimbursement goes, though, you can have
> exactly what y&y
> distributed if that's what you want :).
>


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