[metapost] Original Euler sources

[Laurence Finston]

I've attached a photo, in case anyone is interested.  The white letters at the top are wax and the reddish-brown sheet is linoleum.
The version of the font is the unmodified PostScript version of eurb10, Euler Roman Bold.

I plan to make "hollowed out" bicolor versions and while this works with `glyph', I think it will work better by modifying the MF sources and will make it easier to get typesetting with the letters to work.

Again, if anyone is interested, the sources are here:  https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/3dldf.git/tree/src/Outline_Fonts

This is very much still a work in progress, though.

> Gesendet: Sonntag, 02. Januar 2022 um 22:21 Uhr
> Von: "Karl Berry" <karl at freefriends.org>
> An: Laurence.Finston at gmx.de
> Cc: metapost at tug.org
> Betreff: Re: [metapost] Original Euler sources
>
>     Savannah for GNU 3DLDF:
>     https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/3dldf.git/tree/fonts/source/public/ams/euler
>
> Thanks Laurence. Inspired by this, I also made them available under


> https://tug.org/historic/, namely (and mirrors, in due course)
>
>  rsync://tug.org/historic/fonts/euler/
>
> I found two releases readily available, from 1995 and 1991. The 1995
> version (the last as Metafont, I believe), was actually already in the
> historic archive, under macros/ams/amsfonts*, but that was somewhat
> obscure location, so maybe I made a symlink. The ams area also has tfms,
> but I did not try to copy those.
>
> Also, for the record, I feel I should mention that Hermann Zapf drew new
> versions of many Euler characters in the 2000s, a project with Hans,
> Taco, and Volker. Hans wrote a short article about it, showing some of
> the changes: https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb29-2/tb92hagen-euler.pdf
> They also added
>
> Those fonts are available as Type 1's, in the current amsfonts package.
>
> Best,
> Karl
>
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