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Re: AMS-TeX Fonts for NeXT?

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From: Meinhard E. Mayer (Hardy)
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 06:22
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In article <40357@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> gstecker@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (George Stecker) writes:

???
???           I need to know about getting American Mathematical Society TeX fonts
???   onto a NeXT machine.  The IBM and Mac versions are available, and what I
???   need to know is whether or not the fonts' file format is standard and 
???   compatible.  This is for a NeXTstep 3.0 machine, so any of the disk formats
???   will be readable, but how much trouble will it be to get the fonts to
???   work with NeXT TeX?  

Since this may be of interest to others too I am also posting my
reply: the AMS families of fonts (math, Euler, Cyrillic) are available
for ftp from e-math.ams.com (telnet to e-math.ams.com for more information).
Metafont sources are also available, and work fine on the NeXT. 

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Hardy 
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Meinhard E. Mayer,  Department of Physics, UC Irvine 
e-mail: hardy@golem.ps.uci.edu (preferred) or MMAYER@UCI.BITNET
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