Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The fd files in the same directory don't have any copyright or license >> statement at all; don't know whether they need one.
Even worse, they contain the statement: %Filename: <whatever> %Created by: tex fontplcm %Created using fontinst v1.335 But there's no file "fontplcm" anywhere, only ftp://tug.ctan.org/pub/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source/mathpple/fontplcme.tex (note the additional e) which doesn't seem to be related. >> And I don't know whether this package is still useful today at all... > > I don't think so. There are better ways to get math for palatino. T1 > encoding is not supported. I guess these files are only in there for > compatibility with (really) old documents. texlive doesn't have that relict. > BTW, the way these files are arranged in different directories is really > odd: > > STY and FD in TEXMF/tex/latex/palatcm > TFM and VF in TEXMF/fonts/{tfm,vf}/adobe/mathppl/ > > However, in TEXMF/tex/latex/mathpple (note the 'e'), there are old FD > files for getting Helvetica scaled to 95%, while mathpple.sty is an > obsolete styfile from PSNFSS located in TEXMF/tex/latex/psnfss. I don't > claim to understand this mess. Do you know if that mess originates from the CTAN locations, or is it only in teTeX? Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
