CTAN package update: recycle
Date: June 26, 2009 2:30:04 PM CEST
The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your
local mirror.
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: recycle
Author's name: Ian Green, Scott Pakin
Location on CTAN: /fonts/recycle
Summary description: A font providing the "recyclable" logo
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
As Ian Green's recycle.readme states, recycle.mf "is awful code and doesn't even put the logo in a box (properly)". In practical terms, this means that recycle.mf produces a number of Metafont "Inconsistent equation" errors, which break many of the scripts that process Metafont fonts. Fortunately, running Metafont manually and forcing it to ignore errors does seem to produce valid output. To ease the pain of using the recycling symbol in (La)TeX documents and to enable the recycling symbol to look good at arbitrary scale I hereby provide recycle.pfb, a PostScript Type 1 version of recycle.mf. recycle.pfb was produced by running recycle.mf through mf2pt1 and tweaking the resulting Type 1 font in FontForge to relocate a few control points to integral coordinates and to remove a self-intersecting path.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/recycle . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/recycle (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
As Ian Green's recycle.readme states, recycle.mf "is awful code and doesn't even put the logo in a box (properly)". In practical terms, this means that recycle.mf produces a number of Metafont "Inconsistent equation" errors, which break many of the scripts that process Metafont fonts. Fortunately, running Metafont manually and forcing it to ignore errors does seem to produce valid output. To ease the pain of using the recycling symbol in (La)TeX documents and to enable the recycling symbol to look good at arbitrary scale I hereby provide recycle.pfb, a PostScript Type 1 version of recycle.mf. recycle.pfb was produced by running recycle.mf through mf2pt1 and tweaking the resulting Type 1 font in FontForge to relocate a few control points to integral coordinates and to remove a self-intersecting path.
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/recycle . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/recycle (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
recycle – A font providing the "recyclable" logo
This single-character font is provided as METAFONT source, and in Adobe Type 1 format. It is accompanied by a trivial LaTeX package to use the logo at various sizes.
| Package | recycle |
| Copyright | 1993 Ian Green |
| Maintainer | Ian Green Scott Pakin |