============================================================ eulervm v4.0, 2005-01-11 The Virtual Euler Math fonts and the LaTeX package eulervm ============================================================ Walter Schmidt w-a-schmidt(at)gmx.net The well-known Euler math fonts (designed by H. Zapf) are suitable for math typesetting in conjunction with a variety of text fonts which do not provide math character sets of their own. Euler-VM is a set of _virtual_ math fonts based on Euler and CM. This approach has several advantages over immediately using the _real_ Euler fonts: Most noticeably, less TeX resources are consumed, the quality of various math symbols is improved, and a usable \hslash symbol can be provided. The fonts are accompanied by a LaTeX package which makes them easy to use, particularly in conjunction with Type 1 (PostScript) text fonts. To install Euler-VM, copy all files from the distribution to the corresponding directories of your TeX system. The documentation is provided as a ready-made PDF file with A4 media size in the directory doc/latex/eulervm. It describes only the user interface. To include also the implementation details or to typeset it on a different media size, run the source file file eulervm.dtx through LaTeX, using an appropriate configuration file ltxdoc.cfg. The fontinst sources -------------------- The directory source/latex/eulervm/fontinst contains the sources of the virtual fonts, including a `makefile'. You need these files only in case you want to rebuild or modify the fonts. The following .pl files are required additionally: cmbsy10.pl cmmi10.pl cmr5.pl eufb5.pl eurb7.pl cmbsy5.pl cmmi5.pl cmr7.pl eufb7.pl eurm10.pl cmbsy7.pl cmmi7.pl cmsy10.pl eufm10.pl eurm5.pl cmbx10.pl cmmib10.pl cmsy5.pl eufm5.pl eurm7.pl cmbx5.pl cmmib5.pl cmsy7.pl eufm7.pl eusb10.pl cmbx7.pl cmmib7.pl euex10.pl eurb10.pl eusb5.pl cmex10.pl cmr10.pl eufb10.pl eurb5.pl eusb7.pl eusm10.pl eusm5.pl eusm7.pl euex7.pl cmex7.pl License ------- The `Euler-VM' collection may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.1 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.1 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 1999/06/01 or later. The list of all files belonging to the `Euler-VM Bundle' is given in the file doc/latex/eulervm/manifest.txt. History ------- 2005-01-11, v4.0 Distributon re-arraged \`a la TDS. An obscure bug, affecting the extensible symbols in the font zeuex10, has been fixed. (See eumx.etx) A bug in the fontinst script fontevm.tex, which would prevent it from being processed by newer versions of the fontinst program, has been fixed. Slightly corrected vertical symmetry axis in formulas. Ready-made documentation in PDF format to show the Euler-VM fonts in use. NB: The macro package and the fd files are unchanged, except for the version number. 2004-01-07, v3.0a The package does no longer redefine \vdots and \ddots, because fixing these macros should be left to the package mathdots.sty. Virtual fonts and font metrics are unchanged. Documentation updated wrt/ email address and CTAN links. 2003-06-10, v3.0 The symbols \leq and \geq now show the shape that is preferred by DEK in conjunction with the Euler fonts. (Credits to Frank Mittelbach for pointing me to this!) The width of the symbols is unchanged. The option [small] now acts on the AMS fonts, too, so there are no more restrictions affecting the usage of amssymb.sty in conjunction with the Euler-VM fonts. Slightly changed mapping of font sizes to design sizes used. Particularly, when a math font with a size of 8pt is requested, we are now going to scale up a 7pt font, rather than scaling down a 10pt one. This should improve the appearance of documents with a normal font size of 11pt, where 8pt is used for super- and subscripts. Strictly speaking, this is an incompatible change, but I hope that the amount of practical problems is tolerable, as compared with the improvement. Fixed Makefile so as not to install the auto-generated .fd files, which are lacking the code for the [small] option. VFs and TFMs were now generated with fontinst v1.914, so that the metrics may have changed sligthly, because of improved rounding algorithm. This may cause problems when procesing existing DVI files. 2003-03-02, v2.9b \hbar produces an appropriate warning message now, as suggested by FMi. Additional math symbols \upOmega and \upDelta with type \mathord, to protect against problems with the packages gensymb and units. Small changes to the documentation. Note that the virtual fonts are unchanged. 2002-11-13, v2.9a Virtual fonts: \epsilon and \varepsilon are no longer mixed up. Macro package: The slash, when used as a math delimiter, is now taken from the Euler Roman font, rather than from the text font. Documentation: Minor fixes and additions. 2002-03-10, v2.8 Use \familydefault for the operators font, rather than \rmdefault. Minor code cleanup. 2001-04-10, v2.7 The option [icomma] is still available, however undocumented. The package icomma.sty from the CTAN directory macros/latex/contrib/supported/was/ should be used instead. 2001-03-06, v2.6 Bug fixes: eulervm.sty should now work with amsmath 2.x, regardless of the sequence of loading; \ldots, \vdots, \ddots and the period are taken from the same fonts now, according to the euler-digits option; improved algorithm for the intelligent comma. New feature: With the package option [small], the Euler fonts will be used at 95% of their nominal size, thus blending better with certain text fonts such as Minion. The virtual fonts are unchanged. When installing v2.6 over v2.2, only the package file and the .fd files need to be replaced. 2000-02-02, v2.2 Bug fixes: Use Euler script for \mathcal, instead of CM-Calligraphic; added missing bold symbols; improved documentation. 2000-01-19, v2.1 first public release -- finis