CTAN upload notification: OFS - Olsak's Font System
Date: June 1, 2004 1:38:33 PM CEST
> Name of contribution: OFS - Olsak's Font System
> Name and email: Petr Olsak <petr at olsak.net>
> Suggested location on CTAN: macros/generic/ofs
> Summary description: plainTeX +LaTeX macro for managing large font collections
> License type: other
>
> Announcement text:
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> OFS (Olsak's Font System) is plainTeX and LaTeX macro for managing large font collections. It is used by Czech/Slovak users many years.
>
> Main features:
>
> * Long names of fonts to metric file name mapping. User
> can specify only exact long names in your document.
> * Support for many font encodings.
> * Printing of catalogues of fonts, test samples of
> font families.
> * Interactive macro \showfonts shows all font families
> you have instaled via OFS
> * User interface is the same for plainTeX and for LaTeX,
> but implementation differs: LaTeX variant of OFS uses
> NFSS, but plain variant implements its own font managing
> (may be better than NFSS).
> * Support for math fonts including TX fonts.
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Thank you very much for the upload. I installed the package in
CTAN:macros/generic/ofs.
The package has an individually worded license which I'd like to sort under
the license type 'other'. I believe it to be free enough to have it put
in the 'official' CTAN tree instead of the 'CTAN:/nonfree' directory tree.
Reinhard Zierke
for the CTAN team
ofs – Macros for managing large font collections
OFS (Olsak's Font System) is a set of Plain TeX and LaTeX macros for
managing large font collections; it has been used by Czech/Slovak
users for many years. Main features include:
- Mapping from long names of fonts to the metric file name. The user can specify only exact long names in documents.
- Support for many font encodings.
- Printing of catalogues of fonts and test samples of font families; the interactive macro \showfonts shows all font families you have installed via OFS.
- The user interface is the same for Plain TeX and for LaTeX, but the implementation differs: the LaTeX variant of OFS uses NFSS, but the Plain variant implements its own font management (which may even be better than NFSS)
- Support for math fonts including TX fonts.
Package | ofs |
Version | 2004-05-31 |
Maintainer | Petr Olšák |