Inter-Office MemorandumToWhom it May ConcernDateJuly 19, 1980FromLyle RamshawLocationPalo AltoSubjectNew fonts for the UniversitiesOrganizationCSLXEROX Filed on:[Maxc1]UniversityFonts.bravo[Maxc1]UniversityFonts.press[Ivy]Memos>UniversityFonts.bravo[Ivy]Memos>UniversityFonts.pressThe July font cataclysm won't have as much impact at the universities as it will at PARC, since theuniversities have been running with some version of the third generation fonts from the verybeginning. But I am planning to take advantage of the cataclysm as a chance to give theuniversities a new and more complete release of fonts.Printing fonts:Besides adding new special characters in the third generation of fonts, Pellar has also broadened thescope of font sizes and faces that he is supporting. For example, the third generation releaseincludes TimesRoman and Helvetica in 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 14 points in plain, bold, italic, andbold-italic, and 18 point in plain, bold, and italic. The 14 point fonts in particular should bepopular for overhead transparencies and the like.In addition to some new sizes of old fonts, I also plan to include several random fonts that were notincluded in the original release, but which the universities might like to have. If anyone hasparticular requests, please let me know. So far, in answer to requests from Stanford, I have thefollowing comments. I will be glad to provide Sigma in 20; Logo in 24; Math and Hippo in 12, 14,and 18; Sail in 6 and 8; APL in 8 and 10; and Elite in 10. Cream is available in 10 and 12, in allfour faces; I might as well include them all. By the way, this font release will also include the vector drawing fonts that Carnegie-Mellonproduced for use with the ReDraw program; this should make it easier for the other universities toget curves without jaggies out of their Dovers.TEX fonts:Unfortunately, the July cataclysm did not include any of the updates to the TEX fonts that I wasoriginally planning on. It just seemed smarter to break the cataclysm into two parts, so as to getsome part at least to happen as soon as possible.When I have recovered from the July cataclysm, I will start working on generating new TEX fontsfor CSL from Knuth's latest Metafont sources. My current plan is to generate complete sets atmagnifications of 1.0 and 1.1, and partial sets at several larger magnifications. When all of this isdone, I will add make these new TEX fonts available to the universities as well, in still another fontrelease. The universities will be able to save some work if they just pull and use the TEX fonts thatI produce for PARC, rather than producing their own with Metafont. On the other hand, if youpull my fonts, you will be more or less forced to handle the logical and physical sizes of TEX fonts]gpi c8q]rX-q7Br ]q]r -q7Br Yq]r-q 7BrSsr M#L{#J'Is' F$*9 D}F B M A.6 =t :rN 8L 7B@& 5=$ 31 0 Z .+4 -VX +#> *N (`/ %H #jM !/ tt &r<$ ~O 1 U [ :c K f D8% 13  U=^ UniversityFonts2in the same way that I have chosen to do so. The right way to handle magnification in TEX andhave the resulting Press files print on Dovers is a rather subtle thing to see. If you don't like myplans as expressed in the TexFonts memo, or if you don't understand them, then please bug meabout them. I hope to start implementing my plan before too long, and plans are always easiest tochange while they are still plans.Alto fonts:The university liasons do not have access to [Ivy], and hence cannot go to that source for Alto fonts.I have put the Alto fonts that you probably want onto the Maxc directories and. Most of them are on , in fact. I only used to solve the followingproblem: many people seem to be addicted to the Original-style Alto fonts for Helvetica andTimesRoman, rather than the new fonts that Ron Pellar has produced. Furthermore, they are usedto finding the Original guys on . Thus, for the entire TimesRoman and Helveticafamilies, and in three other places where there were conflicts (Hippo12, Logo24, and Math10), I putthe Pellar version on and the Original version (if any) on . Since you areyoung at heart, flexible, and eager to press on to the future, I suggest that you go with the Pellarversion wherever there is any choice. If, after reading the AltoFontGuide memo, you decide thatyou would like access to some other set of Alto fonts, super-thin ones for example, just let meknow.In any case, all of the Alto fonts are stored on Maxc1 in all three possible flavors: .AL, .KS, and.Strike. The .KS format, in case you are unaware, is a new strike format that allows characters tokern; see the KernedStrikes memo on [Maxc1]. Space on Maxc1:As font dictionaries get larger and larger, it will become more of a problem to have the universitygrant font dictionary sitting on Maxc1, eating up disk space. If the university liasons are willing, Iwould like to set up a scheme at some point whereby I could put these large files on Maxc1 andsend out a message about it with the expectation that the universities would pull the file relativelypromptly. When all university liasons had given me the word that they had the file safely in theirgrasp, I would delete the copy of Maxc1. In this way, we could use Maxc1 only as a temporarystorage medium, a part of the transportation process.Random comment on #140:Rumor has it that the universities have been having some difficulty with the discrepancies betweenthe PARC character code conventions and those in use elsewhere. One small step in the rightdirection is being taken by the official third generation font release (although this feature may nothave made it into the original font set that I sent the universities). In the new TimesRoman andHelvetica fonts, character code #140, which most of the world thinks of as left single quote butwhich used to be undefined in PARC fonts, now duplicates #7, which is the PARC standard forleft single quote. Let's here it for consistency and all that! ftG br"< `ve ^.. ](11 [" X2t Tr7/ S<V Q Y OB NF5* L-. J4/ IP] G#A F*6 DZ_ B ?d^ =Z <8 8t 5xrB! 3R 2)Z 0] .c -3? +5 (=t $rZ #G#9 !F 3. QV -. ? >MP TIMESROMAN  TIMESROMAN TIMESROMAN LOGO TIMESROMAN  j/SouniversityFonts.bravo Ramshaw, LyleJuly 20, 1980 12:10 AM