At 09:30 +0000 1998/12/01, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >>again, one would like to hear chapter and verse on this. i am by >>nature suspicious, and cannot offhand think of much that a >>`professional body' has done, unless you refer to the AMS? are they a There is also SIAM. See for example: > The PostScript Type 1 implementation of the Computer Modern and AMSFonts > produced by and previously distributed by Blue Sky Research and Y&Y, Inc., > are now freely available for general use. This has been accomplished through > the cooperation of a consortium of scientific publishers with > Blue Sky Research and Y&Y. Members of this consortium include: > Elsevier Science > IBM Corporation > Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) > Springer-Verlag > American Mathematical Society (AMS) > ...