09-Nov-1997

Blue Sky Research has made their high quality postscript versions of
the Computer Modern and AMS fonts for TeX freely available for general
use (as described in the excerpt from their READ.ME file included below).
I have packaged these as NeXT style .font directories and put them into
a .pkg file for easy installation.  I have done so for the convenience
of the NeXTstep/OpenStep community.  No warranty is expressed or
implied.

The full distribution consists of three files.  I anticipate they will
wind up in:

  ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/fonts/tex/BlueSkyFonts.README
  ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/fonts/tex/BlueSkyCM.tar.gz
  ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/pub/next/fonts/tex/BlueSkyAMS.tar.gz

Both .tar.gz files will create their own subdirectory with an
installer package, the original READ.ME file from the CTAN sources,
and a file called README.NeXT containing installation instructions for
NextStep/OpenStep.  The CM directory also contains two test files
which are further explained in the installation instructions.

Many thanks to Blue Sky Research, Y&Y Inc., and the AMS for making these
available.  Enjoy!

--Paul J. Sanchez
Associate Professor
Parks College of St. Louis University
paul@spectrum.slu.edu


Note1 - I am aware that the space character is not properly mapped for
use in other NeXT applications, such as Edit.app.  You're free to
correct this on your copy if you wish, but I wanted to make sure that
I wasn't violating the copyright with this distribution.


Note2 - The original distribution of the CM fonts had a problem with
lcircle10 - the name had been truncated to lcircle1 for DOS compatibility,
and I didn't catch that until after the package was on the ftp site.
The updated BlueSkyCM.tar.gz package fixes the problem.  If you already
installed the CM fonts, you fix this manually by renaming (in
/LocalLibrary/Fonts):

  LCIRCLE1.font			==> LCIRCLE10.font 
  LCIRCLE1.font/LCIRCLE1	==> LCIRCLE10.font/LCIRCLE10 
  LCIRCLE1.font/LCIRCLE1.afm	==> LCIRCLE10.font/LCIRCLE10.afm 

Then edit /usr/lib/tex/ps/psfonts.cm and add 0's at the end of
"lcircle1" and "LCIRCLE1" (which are both on the same line).



=============== Excerpt from the READ.ME file ===================

The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the Computer Modern fonts
produced by and previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y,
Inc. are now freely available for general use. This has been
accomplished through the cooperation of a consortium of scientific
publishers with Blue Sky Research and Y&Y.  Members of this consortium
include:

	Elsevier Science
	IBM Corporation
	Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)
	Springer-Verlag
	American Mathematical Society (AMS)

In order to assure the authenticity of these fonts, copyright will be
held by the American Mathematical Society. This is not meant to
restrict in any way the legitimate use of the fonts, such as (but not
limited to) electronic distribution of documents containing these
fonts, inclusion of these fonts into other public domain or commercial
font collections or computer applications, use of the outline data to
create derivative fonts and/or faces, etc. However, the AMS does
require that the AMS copyright notice be removed from any derivative
versions of the fonts which have been altered in any way. In addition,
to ensure the fidelity of TeX documents using Computer Modern fonts,
Professor Donald Knuth, creator of the Computer Modern faces, has
requested that any alterations which yield different font metrics be
given a different name.