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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by leephillips on Thursday July 22, 2021 @11:08AM (#27919778)
These are great, thank you.

EDIT: Do you have any insight into why people still work on packages for type-1 fonts? Who still wants to use these, and why?

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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by jimhefferon on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:23PM (#27922447)
As contrasted with OpenType? I can't speak for the developers of the fonts but when I compile, Type1 is what I happen to use. I note that the documentation for the MLModern fonts say: OpenType support is planned for a future version.
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Re:The LaTeX Font Catalogue by leephillips on Thursday July 22, 2021 @02:34PM (#27922559)
Yes, as contrasted with otf/ttf. I think of Type-1 as obsolete technology, not often used for new fonts and only supporting 256 glyphs per font. But I guess there must be some upside that I don’t know about.
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