CTAN update: cm-tfm
Date: December 23, 2022 11:50:58 AM CET
Karl Berry submitted an update to the
cm-tfm
package.
Version:
License: knuth
Summary description: Metric files for the Computer Modern fonts
Announcement text:
This update replaces the contents of https://ctan.org/tex-archive/cm/tfm/ with the 75 TFM files generated from the official Computer Modern Metafont sources. These TFM files have been distributed since the beginning of TeX Live, and in its predecessors, without changes. (Don Knuth does not officially distribute the TFM files.) Somehow, almost all of the cm*.tfm files on CTAN had an extra null byte at the end, dating from their initial creation in 1992, in the early days of CTAN. We (CTAN+me) do not know how that null byte got in there. The result is that tftopl issues a warning on them ("There's some extra junk..."). Also, this cm/tfm/ directory previously contained some non-CM TFM files, namely dummy.tfm, manfnt.tfm, old_manfnt.tfm, and cmsa10.tfm. The first two are available elsewhere on CTAN, in their respective packages. The latter two we do not know the provenance of, but you can get them from the /obsolete CTAN tree if need be. Thanks to Heiko Theissen for reporting this problem. References: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/619969 https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-k/2018-February/002849.html
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/cm-tfm The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/cm/tfm/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
This update replaces the contents of https://ctan.org/tex-archive/cm/tfm/ with the 75 TFM files generated from the official Computer Modern Metafont sources. These TFM files have been distributed since the beginning of TeX Live, and in its predecessors, without changes. (Don Knuth does not officially distribute the TFM files.) Somehow, almost all of the cm*.tfm files on CTAN had an extra null byte at the end, dating from their initial creation in 1992, in the early days of CTAN. We (CTAN+me) do not know how that null byte got in there. The result is that tftopl issues a warning on them ("There's some extra junk..."). Also, this cm/tfm/ directory previously contained some non-CM TFM files, namely dummy.tfm, manfnt.tfm, old_manfnt.tfm, and cmsa10.tfm. The first two are available elsewhere on CTAN, in their respective packages. The latter two we do not know the provenance of, but you can get them from the /obsolete CTAN tree if need be. Thanks to Heiko Theissen for reporting this problem. References: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/619969 https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-k/2018-February/002849.html
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/cm-tfm The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/cm/tfm/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
cm-tfm – Metric files for the Computer Modern fonts
These are the 75 metric (TFM) files for the official Computer Modern fonts by Donald Knuth. While they are not strictly necessary for current TeX systems (which can generate TFM files, as needed, on the fly), distributions do nevertheless carry them.
| Package | cm-tfm |
| Maintainer | Donald E. Knuth |