Derived Versions
Knuth produced his original Computer Modern fonts using Metafont, a program that reads stroke-based definitions of glyphs and outputs ready-to-use fonts as bitmap image files.
The advance of publishing technology (PostScript, PDF, laser printers) has reduced the need for bitmap fonts. The preferred formats are now outline fonts such as Type 1, TrueType, or OpenType, which can be rendered efficiently at arbitrary resolution and using sophisticated anti-aliasing techniques by printer firmware or on-screen document viewers. Therefore, several other projects have ported the Computer Modern fonts into such formats. Some of these projects have also complemented Computer Modern with
- additional characters (euro, accented characters, Cyrillic and Greek script coverage)
- different font encodings (to overcome problems with Knuth's original 8-bit character sets)
- additional font style variants
Several such derivatives are now also widely used and included in TeX Live, a modern TeX distribution.
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