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Karel Piska

Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, Prague (CZ)

E-mail: piska@fzu.cz

WWW: http://www-hep.fzu.cz/~piska/


TeX - Multilingual Collection


Bug in the Computer Modern fonts?
19 Feb 2007: Computer Modern Roman (METAFONT): cmr(10,12,17,5,6,7,8,9), cmsl(10,12,8,9), and cmdunh10: The bulbs in "a","c", and "ae" depend on resolution - a strange instability of the y-coordinate.

Indic fonts converted to PostScript Type 1 format

Indic fonts, Version 2 (2006)
an accurate conversion of public Indic METAFONT fonts using METAPOST, FontForge and other tools.
7 Apr 2006: dvpb9.pfb (ver.2.05a): invalid newlines in the Copyright comment corrected

Two "small" Chinese fonts converted to Type 1 from the METAFONT sources written by Udo Heyl (1997) and Javier Laguna (2005).

LM fonts

LM fonts: Bug reports and proposals (2006)
Comparison of selected (mostly accented Czech a Slovak) glyphs (2006)

LM fonts (2005)

Submission to TUG2004

Preprint

Checking Type 1 fonts

Checking LM fonts (2003)
Tests of MetaType1 (2003)
(for Boguslaw Jackowski)

"Indic Fonts in Type 1 format" (2002)

Karel Piska: A conversion of public Indic fonts from METAFONT into Type 1 format with TeXtrace
Contribution for TUG 2002 (Thiruvananthapuram/Trivandrum, India, September 2002)

(pfb files) Indic fonts in the PostScript Type 1 format <--- OBSOLETE!

Karel Piska: "A comparison of public CM/EC fonts in Type 1 format" (2002)

Contribution for EuroBachoTeX 2002 (Bachotek, Poland, April-May 2002)

Differences between the BlueSky and the BaKoMa Type 1 versions of the Computer Modern fonts
PDF - multicolor `proofsheet' version
PDF - grey-scale `article-like' version

"Cuneiform fonts" (1999)

Karel Piska: Fonts for Neo-Assyrian cuneiform
Contribution for EuroTeX'99 (Heidelberg, September 1999)
More information about the cuneiform fonts is here .

"Georgian Scripts" (1998)

OBSOLETE! NEEDS A REVISION! (only MF)
29 January 1998
Short abstract - georgian.abstract.txt (ASCII)
Short abstract (without appendix) - georgian.abstract.tex (LaTeX2e)
Extended abstract (abstract + appendix with examples of fonts) - georgian.ps.gz PRELIMINARY (300dpi PS, gzipped <~30 kbytes)

Karel Piska: "Cyrillic Alphabets" (1996)

OBSOLETE! NEEDS A REVISION! (only MF)

Contribution for TUG'96 (Dubna, 28 July 1996)

Abstract

Additional files

Alphabets with Alphabetical Orders (.ps.gz)
Language Names and Codes (.txt)
Language Tree (.txt)
The Languages Using Cyrillic written form but not included in the contribution (Author has no detailed information about the alphabets) (.txt)

Contribution for CyrTUG'95 (in Russian) - Protvino, 5 October 1995

OBSOLETE! NEEDS A REVISION! (only MF)
Document ``Cyrillic Alphabets and Unicode'' , 1st version, 30 pages (text in Russian)
only in PS-form (includes 300 dpi fonts) and large (~300 kbytes) !!!
(gzipped: .ps.gz (~ 90 kbytes)



``Several Non-Cyrillic Alphabets'' - Baltic, Caucasian, ... Preliminary version, 3 pages (in Russian)
only in PS-form (300 dpi) - ~ 70 kbytes (PS-file includes 300 dpi fonts)
(must be corrected !!!, especially Latvian glyphs)



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