At 12:16 1998-12-02 +0100, Hans Aberg wrote: >At 09:57 +0000 1998/12/02, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >>Mark Steinberger writes: >> > The AMS has done one important thing that seems counter to the >> > interests of its publishing arm: bringing the postscript type 1 CM and >> > AMS fonts into the public domain. >>I don't think they are in the public domain, if I may quibble :-} >I recall they are: BlueSky (who sells the MacOS TeX program Textures) >originally developed these commercially, as AMS felt they did could not >afford that. I am not sure whether AMS even considered it at the time (1988-1992). It was not the `next obvious thing to do'. In fact, while it may be hard to imagine now, there was a lot of resistance to PS, and even more resistance to Type 1 fonts. >Later these were released for free use by a joint agreement >between BlueSky and AMS. To be more precise, from http://www.ams.org/index/tex/type1-cm-fonts.html > 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) > ... Y&Y, Inc. mailto:[log in to unmask] http://www.YandY.com