[tex-live] Missing Courier AFMs found

[Hans Hagen]

� wrote:
> Hans Hagen <pragma at wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>   
>> Karl Berry wrote:
>>     
>>>     They should be renamed to `ncr*.pfb' and moved to
>>>     fonts/type1/ibm/courier
>>>
>>> Except if they don't allow modification, we should delete them.
>>> (Even aside from the quoteleft/quoteright issue.)
>>>   
>>>       
>> we should not remove things too easy; next year there will be 
>> replacements for those fonts (outcome of the open type font project) and 
>> then many of the old fonts can go; let's not create gaps in the 
>> collection of fonts that users expect to be present
>>     
>
> Is any macro package (or map file?) actually using these fonts, or can
> they only be accessed with low-level font commands?
>   
you seen them being used in documents (often in combination with other fonts in funny relative scaling) 

nowadays hardly any tex user uses low level font commands; context ships with the neccessary code to use those uwr fonts, so i expect usage 

Hans 

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