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Re: BSR CM type 1 arrows, StMaryRd, and RSFS

Hello,

>The CM fonts freely available under AMS copyright have the revised
>CMSY* and CMBSY10 fonts with the changed delta, and changed
>arrows.  At the time that arrangement was made, it was not realized
>that Knuth actually made changes that affected *all* CM fonts.

The fonts I have sport a new delta, but certainly not the new arrows. This
has been confirmed by BSR ...

>Since then, Y&Y has revised their versions of the CMMI* and CMMIB*
>fonts (and added the `missing' `in between' sizes).  It's far too
>much work to go and redo all of CM.   Fortunately the only serious
>changes are in CMSY* and CMMI*...

Do you have versions of CMSY* with the new arrows? Are they free? Not sure
to understand here.

>The `TeX Pi' font set will include RSFS, BBOLD, WASY2 and St.
>Mary's Road in Type 1 format (but not all sizes).  These are all
>rarely used fonts for which there is very little demand.  The font
>set isn't quite done yet, which is why it doesn't show up on the
>web page --- but RSFS and BBOLD are finished, some of the
>WASY2 fonts are done and there is work on St. Mary's Road.
>As you can imagine this was not a top priority project for Y&Y...

Can you be more specific on availability, price, times, etc.?

Cheers,

-Alessio