This directory contains TeX support for many PostScript fonts. Please send any questions, comments, or suggestions to tex-fonts@math.utah.edu. (Email tex-fonts-request@math.utah.edu to join the list.) These files replace both the old LaTeX PSNFSS and dvips fonts. Both of these packages contained virtual fonts which more or less mimicked the original TeX text encoding, and (in the case of PSNFSS) the Cork encoding. However, the two packages used different base fonts, thus making previewing painful (and wasting disk space). Now, everything uses a single base font in a new encoding named 8r (see tools/8r.enc or tools/8r.etx). This new base encoding is *not* Adobe Standard Encoding, because that does not provide access to all of the 228 characters normally supplied with a Type 1 font. Therefore, you must use a DVI-to-PostScript driver which can perform reencoding, such as dvips(k). Aside from the base font, there are other small changes in the new fonts. For the Cork-encoded fonts, the stretch and shrink of the interword spacing has been changed. For the dvips fonts, the positions of the preaccented characters have been fixed (e.g., Aring is at the same position in every font). Therefore, the font checksums are different. The actual character dimensions, however, remain unchanged. The font metrics provided have proper checksums generated for them, compatible with ps2pk, thanks to Piet Tutelaars who sorted it out. The new fonts (mostly) have new names. You can get the new fontname distribution from CTAN's info directory. This distribution includes support the standard 35 fonts, various freely available fonts (with type1's), and many commercial-only fonts (no type1's). Smallcaps and obliqued versions are available in bold and normal variants, where applicable. All fonts have ligatures and kerning (no ``raw'' fonts); therefore, even the *8r base fonts can be used for real typesetting. We built these fonts using both fontinst and afm2tfm (and other utilities). Both required changes, which will be merged into the next releases. See the tools/ directory. Primary perpetrators: Sebastian Rahtz, Alan Jeffrey, Karl Berry. Aiders and abettors: Tom Rokicki, Ciar\'an \'O Duibh\'{\i}n, Pierre MacKay, Constantin Kahn, Rob Hutchings, Berthold Horn, Damian Cugley. Checksums: Piet Tutelaars