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CTAN update: txfonts & pxfonts small cap fonts update

Date: March 27, 2008 6:10:29 AM CET
The packages below have been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thanks again, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: txfonts & pxfonts small cap fonts update Author's name: Young Ryu Location on CTAN: /fonts/txfonts and fonts/pxfonts Summary description: txfonts & pxfonts small cap fonts update License type: gpl Announcement text:
The uploaded txpxfonts.zip contains pxfonts/afm/rpxbsc.afm pxfonts/afm/rpxsc.afm pxfonts/pfb/rpxbsc.pfb pxfonts/pfb/rpxsc.pfb txfonts/afm/rtxsc.afm txfonts/afm/rtxsssc.afm txfonts/afm/rtxbsssc.afm txfonts/afm/rtxbsc.afm txfonts/pfb/rtxsc.pfb txfonts/pfb/rtxsssc.pfb txfonts/pfb/rtxbsssc.pfb txfonts/pfb/rtxbsc.pfb Adobe Reader 8 often does not properly display/print small cap letters. The above updates correct this issue.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/txfonts http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/pxfonts . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/txfonts http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pxfonts (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

pxfonts – Palatino-like fonts in support of mathematics

Pxfonts supplies virtual text roman fonts using Adobe Palatino (or URWPalladioL) with some modified and additional text symbols in the OT1, T1, and TS1 encodings; maths alphabets using Palatino/Palladio; maths fonts providing all the symbols of the Computer Modern and AMS fonts, including all the Greek capital letters from CMR; and additional maths fonts of various other symbols.

The set is complemented by a sans-serif set of text fonts, based on Helvetica/NimbusSanL, and a monospace set derived from the parallel TX font set.

All the fonts are in Type 1 format (AFM and PFB files), and are supported by metrics (VF and TFM files) and macros for use with .

Packagepxfonts
Version 2009-01-14
MaintainerYoung Ryu

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