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mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Michael DeCorte) writes:

>Available from the clarkson archive is
>latex-style amssymbols.sty
>tex-style mssymb.tex
>amstex-style mssymb.sty

>that will do what you want if you have the amstex fonts which are also
>available here at Clarkson.

Where are the amstex fonts?

What you have at Clarkson in pub/amsfonts is a subset of the fonts in
(completely useless) OLD Metafont ('78) description. At score.stanford.edu they
also claim to have "the" amstex fonts for anonymous ftp. But there one finds, in
addition to the above, pxl and tfm files for the msxm and msym fonts, but not
for the eufm fonts (Fraktur or Gothic characters), and also only in one size
(suitable for 10pt documents).

Is there a place where the complete set of pk or pxl files in the standard sizes
can be obtained via ftp? I do know that one can get them on tape from the AMS.
So, if Clarkson has them somewhere, why don't they put them into pub/amsfonts
(maybe in a compressed form)?

A related question: At Clarkson, in pub/amsfonts, one also finds a file with a
description of the amstex stuff. There it is promised that the AMS is real soon
now converting these old Metafont files to new Metafont so that everybody can
use them. The only problem is that this promise is from 1985! Does anybody know
what the current policy of AMS about the amstex fonts is (if they have any)?

--Martin Costabel