[Upload] a free drop-in replacement for Adobe's Courier

Robin Fairbairns Robin.Fairbairns at cl.cam.ac.uk
Wed Jul 17 18:51:54 CEST 2002


Rolf Marvin B e Lindgren [subject to the manglings of my mailer]
wrote:

> I have uploaded bcr.tar.gz to the incoming directory of ftp.tex.ac.uk. 
> 
> I assume I want the files to go to the /pub/tex/fonts/ directory and
> that I would like the lppl conditions to apply. 
> 
> there are README files in English and Norwegian.  the files just make it
> easy to use Bitstream's free Courier, which was made available for
> unrerstricted use by IBM many years ago.  in my biased and eccentric
> opinion, these fonts look nicer than Adobe's Courier, being somewhat
> darker.  they go well with e.g. Times and Helvetica.

i've installed the files under fonts/psfonts/bitstream/courier (which
seemed an appropriate sort of place).  i arranged them in
subdirectories, to match the way other fonts/psfonts sub-sub-
directories appear.

thanks for the upload

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team



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