CTAN update: cm-tfm

[CTAN Announcements]

Karl Berry submitted an update to the

                    cm-tfm

package.

Version:  
License:  knuth

Summary description:  Metric files for the Computer Modern fonts

Announcement text:
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 This update replaces the contents of https://ctan.org/tex-archive/cm/tfm/
 with the 75 TFM files generated from the official Computer Modern Metafont
 sources. These TFM files have been distributed since the beginning of
 TeX Live, and in its predecessors, without changes. (Don Knuth does not
 officially distribute the TFM files.)

 Somehow, almost all of the cm*.tfm files on CTAN had an extra null byte
 at the end, dating from their initial creation in 1992, in the early
 days of CTAN. We (CTAN+me) do not know how that null byte got in there.
 The result is that tftopl issues a warning on them ("There's some extra
 junk...").

 Also, this cm/tfm/ directory previously contained some non-CM TFM files,
 namely dummy.tfm, manfnt.tfm, old_manfnt.tfm, and cmsa10.tfm. The first
 two are available elsewhere on CTAN, in their respective packages. The
 latter two we do not know the provenance of, but you can get them from
 the /obsolete CTAN tree if need be.

 Thanks to Heiko Theissen for reporting this problem. References:
 https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/619969
 https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-k/2018-February/002849.html

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The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   https://ctan.org/pkg/cm-tfm

The package’s files themselves can be inspected at
   https://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/cm/tfm/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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