TeX User Group Poland
The TeX User Group Poland, often known as the acronym GUST (Polish: Polska Grupa Użytkowników Systemu TeX), is a TeX user community headquartered in Toruń. It is mainly known for its efforts around font publication, extending from their initial polonization to wider Unicode coverage, OpenType conversion, and features such as OpenType Math.
Each year the GUST association organizes the All-Polish TeX Conference - BachoTeX (at the Nicolaus Copernicus University center in Bachotek, Brodnica) and publishes its own newsletter. Some articles published in the newsletter are available electronically. GUST also maintains a mailing list linked to the usenet discussion group pl.comp.dtp.tex.gust.
GUST supports the polonization of popular printing fonts: so far the Computer Modern (CM) and Concrete Roman fonts distributed with TeX have been polonized, as well as the fonts distributed with Ghostscript, extended by the TeX Gyre project.[1] Polonized CM fonts were distributed under the name PL fonts, which later became the basis for the Latin Modern family.[2] Electronic versions of common Polish printing typefaces have also been made. All of these fonts are freely available.
History
GUST was founded in 1992. It had over 200 members at the beginning of 2018.
Font projects
GUST's e-foundry has expanded Computer Modern into Latin Modern, and the 33 URW-Ghostscript fonts into TeX Gyre. Both font projects have been converted for OpenType Math in a separate release. In addition, there is a TeX Gyre DejaVu Math family based on the DejaVu fonts.[3]
The e-foundry uses METATYPE1 for development. The three main developers of METATYPE1 are themselves members of the e-foundry.[3]
Donald Knuth has acknowledged the work by GUST on TeX fonts in a 1995 letter.[4] MathJax 2 includes support for some TeX Gyre fonts.[5] Mozilla Firefox includes TeX Gyre fonts in their list of OpenType Math-enabled fonts.[6]
References
- ↑ "TeX Gyre Project". http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/.
- ↑ "Latin Modern Family of Fonts". http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/latin-modern.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "e-foundry: what's this?". http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry.
- ↑ Bogusław Jackowski, Piotr Strzelczyk, Piotr Pianowski (2016). "GUST e-foundry font projects". TUGboat 16 (3). https://tug.org/TUGboat/tb37-3/tb117jackowski.pdf.
- ↑ "MathJax Font Support". http://docs.mathjax.org/en/latest/output/fonts.html.
- ↑ "Fonts for Mozilla's MathML engine". https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/MathML_Project/Fonts#MATH_fonts.
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