[OS X TeX] Lucida fonts available from TUG

[Ross Moore]

This message has just been posted to various TeX-related lists.
I'm sure there are people here that are interested in this.


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Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:56:09 -0500
From: "TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List" <MacOSX-TeX at email.esm.psu.edu>
To: "Karl Berry" <karl at tug.org>
Subject: Re: Lucida fonts available from TUG

> Hi everyone,
>
> The Lucida fonts are now available through TUG; visit
> http://tug.org/lucida if you're interested.
>
> In short, the "complete set" offered by TUG is exactly the same 41
> Lucida fonts which Y&Y sold.  (The pfb's are completely unchanged.)
> There is also a "basic set" with 22 fonts -- all the math fonts and  
> the
> essential text fonts.  Both individual and site licenses are  
> available.
> There is a substantial discount for TUG members.
>
> Due to legal and overhead considerations, we aren't currently planning
> to offer the fonts one at a time, or in any other bundles.  Hopefully
> the price is low enough that this will not be a significant problem.
>
> The Lucida TeX support metrics and lucidabr (psnfssx) macros have been
> (slightly) updated.  They have been uploaded to CTAN and should appear
> there in due course.  Of course all the support files are included in
> the downloads from tug; they're on CTAN primarily for the benefit  
> of Y&Y
> users who already have the fonts.
>
> We have also established a mailing list lucida at tug.org for user
> questions, suggestions, bug reports, etc.  Please feel free to post
> and/or join.
> http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/lucida
>
> A separate address, lucida-admin at tug.org, should be used for  
> licensing,
> billing, and other such admin questions.
>
> Font samples, documentation, and more are available on the web site.
>
> Although we still expect to offer a license upgrade for Y&Y users,  
> this
> has proven legally complicated, so it's not online quite yet.  I'll  
> post
> again when it is ready; it might be a few more weeks, given the  
> holidays
> (and lawyers' usual working pace, anyway :).  I didn't want this to
> delay making the fonts available, so decided to go ahead.
>
> Major thanks to Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes for generously allowing
> TUG to offer this to the TeX community - and especially for designing
> this remarkable typeface in the first place.  Also thanks to Walter
> Schmidt for creating and updating the TeX font support files, PCTeX  
> for
> sponsoring him and allowing his work to be redistributed, and to  
> Morten
> Hoegholm for working on the samples and other TeXnical help.
>
> Happy Lucida holidays,
> Karl
>
> (R) Lucida is a trademark of Bigelow & Holmes Inc. registered in the
> U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and other jurisdictions.


Cheers,

	Ross

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