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diff --git a/info/metafont-list b/info/metafont-list new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..f205ebea96 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/metafont-list @@ -0,0 +1,820 @@ +From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam Quin) +Subject: [comp.text.tex] Metafont: All fonts available in .mf format +Message-ID: <liamfaq-mf1-26@sq.com> +Summary: .mf files are font outlines that you can use with mf to generate pk or gf format TeX bitmap fonts. +Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada +Date: Sat, 24 Sep 94 22:06:36 GMT +Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDU +Expires: 24 Oct 1994 02:49:16 GMT +Lines: 810 + +Archive-name: fonts-faq/metafont-list + + +Summary of Metafont Fonts Available (Approximate Digest Format) + +This list includes all known fonts available in metafont format, whether +public domain or not. Archive sites for ftp are listed where known. +There is also a BITNET archive at LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU. + +This list is formatted as a sort-of-digest so you can skip through +it easily (e.g. use control-G in rn). + +I have deleted the information on using fonts, as there's now an FAQ +for comp.fonts. Please note that I don't use TeX, and can't answer +questions about it. But I always welcome additions to this list. + +Many of the files are listed as being on a ctan archive. +The CTAN servers are + ftp.shsu.edu (192.92.115.10), + ftp.dante.de (129.206.100.192), and + ftp.tex.ac.uk (134.151.79.32). +These are mirrored at vaious places, although I don't have a list + + +Contents: + + AMS (see also under Euler) Hershey + APL (A Programming Language) Hewlett Packard LaserJet Format + About Metafont Hieroglyphic + Arabic Hindi + Astrological International Phonetic Alphabet +Irish + Bar Code Japanese + Blackboard Bold Klingon + Calligraphic Korean + Chess Malvern + Chinese Music + Cirth OCR (Optical Character Recognition) + Committee Old English + Computer Modern Oriya + Concrete Pandora + Courier Pica + Croatian Glagolitic Pointing Hands + Cyrillic Punk + Devanagari Ransom + Dingbats Sanskrit + Duerer Sanskrit (see Fonts: Devanagari) + Egyptian [see: Hieroglyphic] Sauter + Ethiopian (Amharic, Geez) Script + Euler Symbol + Fraktur [see: Babel/German, Euler] Tamil + German [see: Babel/German, Euler] Tengwar + Godel Thai + Gothic [see: Babel, Euler] Times + Greek Vietnamese + Hebrew Waldi Symbol Font + Helvetica + + + +Subject: About Metafont + +Metafont is a programming language for describing fonts. It was written +by Donald Knuth and is documented in + Computers & Typesetting/C: The METAFONTbook + Knuth, Donald E. + Addison Wesley, 1986 + ISBN 0-201-13445-4, or 0-201-13444-6 (soft cover) + Library access: Z250.8.M46K58, or 686.2'24, or 85-28675. + +A font written in Metafont is actually a computer program which, when run, +will generate a bitmap (`raster') for a given typeface at a given size, +for some particular device. + +In order to use a metafont format font, you'll need to have metafont, or +a program such as mf2ps. See the comp.fonts FAQ for more information. + + +Subject: AMS (see also under Euler) + +The American Mathematical Society collection of Metafont fonts contains: +[1] AMS Euler -- a calligraphic font, designed by Herman Zapf for the AMS. + It is designed for mathematical use, not as a text face. The fonts are + Fraktur, Script, Upright Italic, Math extension. (TUGboat Vol.10, No. 1) + Most of the Euler fonts use the plain base, not the cm base. You + should build these using virmf, or at least with a version of Metafont + that does not have cmbase pre-loaded. Any Errors reported when building + some of the samller sizes can be ignored. + +[2] AMS extra maths symbols (msam, msbm) + +[3] AMS computer modern extensions -- providing some of the CM fonts at + extra point-sizes. + +[4] AMS Cyrillic (this is the same as University of Washington Cyrillic) + +There is also some documentation. + +You can get them from the AMS directly: +ftp: e-math.ams.com /ams/amsfonts/sources +Any (infrequent) changes to these fonts happen on e-math first. + +ftp: CTAN in pub/archive/fonts/ams (everything, compressed tar) +ftp: CTAN in pub/archive/fonts/latex/mf (computer modern extensions only) + + +Subject: APL (A Programming Language) + +These were described in tugboat (Vol 8 No. 3, pp.275-278) +ftp: power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu apl-tex-font/27-Jul-90 + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/apl/* +ftp: power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu apl-tex-font/27-Jul-90 + + +Subject: Arabic + +Prof. Klaus Lagally's <lagally@informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> ArabTeX is +a LaTeX extension for high-quality arabic writing. + +ftp: ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de +ftp: ftp.dante.de +ftp: ctan: pub/archive/language/arabtex/mfinput + + +Subject: Armenian + +ftp: ctan: pub/archive/fonts/armenian/* + + +Subject: Astrological + +Symbols for the planets and the signs of the zodiac. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/astro + +astrofonts.tar.Z contains several Metafont files from Lars Alexandersson +<larsa@math.chalmers.se>. +ftp: hilbert.maths.utas.edu.au + +See also Waldi Symbols + + +Subject: Bar Code + +Dimitri Vulis's barcode font +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/barcodes.mf + + +Subject: Blackboard Bold + +Used for Real Numbers (R), Natural, Complex, etc. +ftp: labrea.stanford.edu pub/tex/fonts/bbb*.mf + +bbold.mf is Alan Jeffrey's blackboard bold font, and contains both +upper and lower case. +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/bbold/* +ftp: ipc1.rrzn.uni-hannover.de in /pub/tex/fonts/metafont/jeffrey. +ftp: ftp.dante.de in /soft/tex/fonts/metafont/jeffrey + + +Subject: Calligraphic + +twcal is a calligraphic font with many ligatures and alternate letter-forms, +and includes TeX macros. + +ftp: ftp.dante.de + +Subject: Chess + +ftp: ftp.cs.ruu.nl pub/TEX/chess.tar.Z +by Piet Tutelaers; described in TUGboat. + +Some chess typesetting macros were posted to comp.tex.tex on July 31st 1990. +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/chess/* + + +Subject: Chinese + +Poor Man's TeX generates Chinese Metafont characters +ftp: blackbox.hacc.washington.edu; cd pub/poorman (??) + +Poor Man's TeX Chinese has been extended to support Big5 format; +pre-generated 300dpi Simplified and Traditional GB fonts are available for ftp. + +ftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/misc/pmtex-1.1.tar.Z +ftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/chinese/fonts/pmt-{300dpi,tfm} + +ChTeX is a set of macros and fonts for typesetting Chinese under TeX. +It only supports PostScript, and requires a modivied dvi2ps. You write +your article with PinYin. +Included are source, fonts, VMS binary for 5.2, DOS binary, etc. There is +also support for X-Windows; contact mliesher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher). + +ftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/chinese/{dvi2ps-3.2,ChTeX-1.1}.tar.Z +ftp neon.stanford.edu ; ChTeX.tar.Z + +Subject: Cirth + +This is a Tolkien font based on Anglo-Saxon `Futharc' runes. +Julian Bradfield has versions of both Tengwar [q.v.] and Cirth runes. + +ftp: ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk export/jcb/Elvish.tar.Z +ftp: (or the individual files instead in the same directory) +Janet-niftp: uk.ac.ed.lfcs user=ftp pass=user80 export/jcb/Elvish.tar.Z +ftp: They are also available for ftp on aston. + +There is also a cirth font by Jo Jaquinta, Trinity College, Dublin: + +ftp: lanczos.maths.tcd.ie jaymin/mf/cirth +mail: info-serv@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie - send a one-line mail message containing +mail: HELP in the text of the message. This may be called "infoserv" now. + + +Subject: Committee + +This was produced during a workshop tutorial given by Donald Knuth. +This is said (by Don Hosek, whom I trust in such things) to be hard-wired +for the APS typesetter... It is described in Tugboat Vol. 5 No. 2 (Nov. 84). + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/committee/* + + +Subject: Computer Modern + +Computer Modern is Donald Knuth's font family used for his later +`Art of Computer Programming' books. It contains + cmr -- computer modern roman + cmmi -- computer modern maths italic + cmti -- computer modern text italic + cmb -- computer modern bold + cmss -- computer modern sans serif + Cmtt -- computer modern typewriter + cmvtt -- computer modern variable-spaced typewriter +and several variations on each of the above (e.g. bold extended...). +There are also some experimental fonts, such as cmff, a `funny' font, and +cmfib, a font based on Fibonacci numbers. + +These are all included in a standard TeX distribution, although I only know +of one site archiving the metafont files seperately. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/cm/mf/* +There is also a very large and probably very complete collection in +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/cm/* + +If all else fails, you can try: +ftp: labrea.stanford.edu cd pub/tex/cm + +Many TeX ftp archive sites also give access to the bitmaps (pk files), +although you usually have to get them all at once. + +There is also a reparameterised version of CM by John Sauter, which makes +it easy to generate fonts at desired sizes-- this is especially useful for +non-TeX users. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/cm/sauter/* +See also: Babel, Sauter + +There is also a Pica typewriter font -- italic and bold come out with +straight and wavy underlines (respectively), however. This is in +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/cmpica/* + +Versions of these fonts suitable for use with an X Windows previewer (xtex +and SeeTeX) are available from +ftp: UNKNOWN [was foobar.colorado.edu] pub/SeeTeX + +A variant of CMTT with 8-bit characters for the Mac is available for US$20 +from yannis@frcitl81.BITNET -- this is called MACTT. Mf source is included. + +Subject: Concrete + +This font was designed for Donald Knuth's Concrete Mathematics book. +It looks a little like a cross between American Typewriter and Computer +Modern Roman. There are Roman and Italic faces. + +See Tugboat Vol 10 No. 3, pp. 31-36, "typesetting concrete", by Don. Knuth; +an erratum was published in Tugboat Vol 10 No. 3, p. 342. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/concrete/* + + +Subject: Courier + +The `ascii' font is based on the public domain Courier font donated by IBM to +the X Consortium. This font contains the IBM graphics characters, +and covers only 7-bit ASCII. It was created by R. Ramasubramanian, +R. W. D. Nickalls and M. A. Reed, and is described in tugboat Vol 15 No. 2. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/ascii/* + + +Subject: Croatian Glagolitic + +Darko Zubrinic <darko.zubrinic@etf.uni-zg.ac.mail.yu> described this in +"The Exotic Croatian Glagolitic Alphabet" (TUGboat Vol. 13 No. 4 pp 470--471). +See also Fonts: Cyrillic + + +Subject: Cyrillic + +There are several Cyrillic (Russian-Alphabet) fonts: + Tom Ridgeway's Cyrillic fonts + WN-Cyrillic + ifve (which I'm told has better letterforms than WN but only + covers Russian) + +the wncy* fonts are part of the amsfonts package: +ftp: e-math.ams.org:/ams/amsfonts/sources/cyrillic +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/sources/cyrillic/* + +ftp: june.cs.washington.edu +[BITNET: LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU] + +There is a mailing list, rustex-l, for discussion of typesetting +Cyrilic-based languages. To subscribe, send mail to listserv@ubvm.bitnet +containing the text + SUBSCRIBE RUSTEX-L <your name here> +or mail Dimitri Vulis, DLV%CUNYVMS1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu [or dlv@dm.com?] + +Alexander Harin has put together a set of fonts using the alternative +Russian font encoding, widely used on MS-DOS in Russia. This includes: +[1] *.mf and *.tfm files for cmcyr fonts by A.Samarin and N.Glonti (modified); +[2] Virtual fonts *.vf by A.Harin which have the standard TeX 7-bit encoding + and use the top half of the 8-bit space for the cmcyr fonts in the + alternative encoding, and +[3] style macros. + +the fonts: +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/cmcyralt + +the LaTeX 2.09 NFSS1 style: +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/cmcyralt + +the LaTeX 2e style: +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/cmcyralt + + +Subject: Duerer + +Based on the 16th Century drawings of Albrecht Duerer -- see, for example, +his ``The Painter's Manual'' published in Fac Simile by Abaris Books, and +reprinted in part by Dover as `On the Just Formation of Letters'. +Hoenig's article was in TUGboat Vol 11 No. 14. + +Upper case letters only. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/duerer/* + + +Subject: Devanagari + +(this is a font for use with Sanskrit, Hindi, etc.) +Created by Frans Velthuis in 1987/88 and is available from him +(Velthuis%hgrrug5.earn@cunyvm.cunyvm.edu) for a small charge. +Another address is "velthuis@hgrrug5.bitnet". + F.J. Velthuis, + Nyensteinheerd 267 + 9736 TV Groningen + The Netherlands + +Also available as part of his Devanagari transliteration package: +ftp: june.cs.washington.edu tex/devnag.tar.Z, or devnag.zip + +You could also try, these, although I don't know if they are the same: +ftp: blackbox.hacc.washington.edu:/pub/indic/outlines/vnagari.* + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/language/devanagari/* + +See Also: Fonts: Tamil + + +Subject: Dingbats + +By Doug Henderson. +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/dingbat/* +See Also: Washington Symbol Font + +Eberhard Matthes' TeX for MSDOS (emTeX) has an additional font emsy, which +contains a few (5 or so) Dingbats-type characters (e.g. a lock). + + +Fonts: Ethiopian (Amharic, Geez) + +There is an Amharic font in Metafont. See TUGboat vol 10(3), p.352; +You can find it in /tex-archive/lanaguges/ethiopia/ethtex/disk8. +EthTeX is a package that enable users to typeset documents in Ethiopian +Script and Ge'ez in additon to the standard features. + +ftp: ftp.shsu.edu [192.92.115.10]; cd tex-archive/languages/ethiopia/ethtex +ftp.tex.ac.uk [134.151.44.19]; cd tex-archive/languages/ethiopia/ethtex +ftp.dante.de [128.69.1.12]; cd tex-archive/languages/ethiopia/ethtex + + +Subject: Euler + +These were designed by Herman Zapf for the American Mathematical Society (the +AMS). The fonts are Fraktur, Script, Upright Italic, Math extension. +(see TUGboat Vol.10, No. 1) + +ftp: e-math.ams.com /ams/amsfonts/sources + +See also: AMS; Babel/German + + +Subject: Fraktur Fonts + +Yannis Haralambous' Gothic Fonts (described in TUGBoat 12.1) are in +the following directories: +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/yfrak +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/ygoth +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/yinit +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/yinitas +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/yswab + +See Also: Old English + + +Subject: Greek + +Brian Hamilton Kelly's Greek font: +ftp: xydeco.siemens.com greek* + +Sylvio Levy's Greek font: +ftp: UNKNOWN; cd [anonymous.tex.babel.greek.levy] + +Also the Sylvio Levy `gr' greek family, for both Modern and Classical Greek. +This includes roman, typewriter and bold, plus TeX macros. + +Brian Hamilton Kelly's cmgr family +Yannis Haramboulos' rgr family + +ftp: UNKNOWN; cd [anonymous.tex.babel.greek] + +James K. Tauber's Greek Metafont `MELANOS' + +Melanos differs from other Greek Metafonts in that the diacritics are placed +after the letter they apply to, making it easier to use Greek texts based on +the CATSS/CCAT/TLG system of transliteration. CATSS/CCAT/TLG files can be +made compatible with MELANOS by changing "\" to "`" and "|" to "!" +This (0.2) is still an early release with a simple mono-width sans +serif style. + +ftp: tartarus.uwa.edu.au; cd /pub/jtauber/melanos + + +see also Babel, Malvern + + +Subject: Hebrew + +A number of Hebrew fonts are available, with and without vowels. Those +include the fonts Jerusalem, TelAviv, OldJaffa and DeadSea, Joel M. Hoffman's +HCLASSIC (joel@wam.umd.edu), Jacques Goldman's REDIS, Shalom fonts and more. + +Some or all of the fonts are available in an 8-bit encoding; the Metafont +files have names ending in "_newcode.mf". These are: +Jerusalem, TelAviv, OldJaffa, DeadSea, redis{8,9,10,12,17}, rediss{8,9,10}. + + +Jerusalem, TelAviv, OldJaffa and DeadSea are the "regular" fonts in most +applications. Jerusalem is the default; DeadSea is a darker font; TelAviv is +a sort of sans-serif font; OldJaffa is a narrow font. + +REDIS (redis*) contains a full set of Hebrew letters in a "sans-serif" +style, and selected punctuation. + +Hclassic, dclassic, hcaption and dcaption have a companion slanted form, and +provide Biblical-style letters along with full vocalization capabilities +(i.e. vowels, called in Hebrew NIKUD). The fonts dclassic and dcaption are a +modified version of hclassic and hcaption, in that they contain, apart from +the original characters and vowels, also digits and special symbols copied +from the font DeadSea. + +Usage is described in the guide classic_guide (available in noa.huji.ac.il +in tex/tex_guides). + +ShalomScript10, ShalomStick10 and ShalomOldStyle10 are three variations of +a Hebrew font with "vowels". Three fonts + vowels are available: +ShalomScript10.mf, ShalomStick10.mf and ShalomOldStyle.mf. +Usage is described in Shalom.readme. + + +Carmel and carmel slanted (crml10, crmlsl10) are bold fonts written by +Dr. Samy Zafrany of the Technion, Haifa, for headers and for emphasized text. + +All of the Hebrew fonts can be found at the archive for Hebrew TeX files: + +ftp: noa.huji.ac.il [132.64.254.10]; cd tex/fonts + + +Subject: Helvetica + +Produced by the Metafoundry and sold commercially. +The Metafoundry is no longer extant, and the sources to these and their other +fonts are not available. Email me if you need more information; Rick Tobin +is on the net, but the connection is unreliable. + +Subject: Hewlett Packard LaserJet Format + +You will need to generate tfm files for these in order to use them with TeX, +and also to arrange to download them to your printer... +There are rather a lot of them. + +ftp: oh dear -- no site listed. Help! + + +Subject: Hershey + +The Hershey fonts were designed for use by plotters, and published in 1972. +These fonts are of relatively low typographic quality, but are useful on +devices with lower resolution. + +ftp: cs.uoregon.edu +ftp: science.utah.edu + +There may be a Hershey to MF converter at mims-iris.waterloo.edu called +xhershey. Ken Yap wrote it and `played around with a few novelty fonts +before deciding the Hershey quality wasn't worth it,' he tells me. + +Subject: Hindi + +See Also: Fonts: Devanagari, Sanskrit, Tamil + +Subject: Hieroglyphic + +Created by Serge Rosmorduc (rosmord@inf.enst.fr). +ftp: ftp.tex.ac.uk; directory /tex-archive/fonts/hieroglyph + + +Subject: International Phonetic Alphabet + +Used by linguists, and also in some dictionaries. It's designed to go +with Computer Modern. From WSU. +The csli version has been extended by Emma Pease (emma@csli.stanford.edu) to +include hooked D, B and K, and probably more. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/tsipa/doc/* +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/wsuipa/* +ftp: cougar.csc.wsu.edu; directory: text1.wsuipa +ftp: csli.stanford.edu; file: Phonetic.tar.Z + +Subject: Irish + +Ivan A Derzhanski's Irish fonts: +ftp: ftp.dante.de in /soft/tex/fonts/eiad; read file Leigh_me first. + +Jo Jaquinta's (half-?) Uncial +ftp: clr.nmsu.edu in CLR/multiling/gaelic/fonts/half-uncial.tar.gZ +ftp: ftp.cc.utexas.edu in source/tex/fonts/uncial + + + +Subject: Japanese + +Metafont for 61 Japanese fonts is available from many sources, including: + +ftp: SIMTEL (tenex) tex/jemtex2.zip +ftp: wuarchive (binary) file mirrors/msdos/tex/jemtex2.zip +ftp: utsun (binary) file TeX/jawatex/* + +Pregenerated Kanji fonts at 300dpi are available -- +ftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/japanese/fonts/pmt-{tfm,300dpi}/* +See Also: Fonts, Chinese + + +Subject: Klingon + +This is a font from the television series `Star Trek', metafonted by +Khoros sutai-Makpai +c/o Karl Guenter Wuensch +hz225wu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de +(this account is shared with Micaela "Stayka" Pantke, +so don't be alarmed if the mailer inserts her address) + +ftp: ftp.dante.de /pub/soft/tex/fonts/klinz/* + +Subject: Korean + +Poor Man's TeX (see under Fonts: Chinese) has been extended to support Hangul. +Pregenerated fonts only are available: +ftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/korean/pmtex-korean-fonts.tar.Z + +See Also: Fonts, Chinese + +Subject: Malvern + +An experimental sans-serif font by Damian Cugley (Damian.Cugley@prg.ox.ac.uk). +There is also a program "mff" that runs metafont to generate a font, and +you may need this in order to generate Malvern. +This font (as of patch 2) contains a sans-serif Greek alphabet, using +conventions based on Levy's original Greek fonts and Dryllerakis' GreekTeX. + +mail: Send a message "help" or "index tex" to archive-server@prg.ox.ac.uk +ftp: ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk in pub/TeXhax, ftp.robots.ox.ac.uk in pub/ox.src +ftp: the file magsampler.tar.z contains a sampler with pk fonts. + + + +Subject: Music + +MuTeX is a basic music package for TeX. It seems to be the same as mtex, +but with documentation in English rather than (or as well as) German. + +ftp: stolaf.edu /pub/MuTeX.tar.Z /pub/MuTeX_doc.Z +ftp: suned.zoo.cs.yale.edu [128.36.21] +ftp: cs.ubc.edu src/MuTeX/MuTeX.tar.Z (slow) +ftp: wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/msdos/tex/mutex.arc + +In Europe, +ftp: ftp.cs.ruu.nl in subdirectory pub/TEX +ftp: mtex.tar.Z (sources, including metafont sources and documentation) +ftp: mtexfonts.tar.Z (300dpi pk files) +These are also available in Europe by mail-server. Send mail to +mail-server@cs.ruu.nl with HELP in the subject and the body and probably +the .signature as well :-) + +MUSICTEX is another package with some more fonts, but French documentation +ftp: 130.84.128.100 username-MUSICTEX password=ANY + +This may or may not be the same as MusicTeX: +ftp: qed.rice.edu pub/musictex.tar.Z + + +Subject: OCR (Optical Character Recognition) + +OCR A (this is not the font for printing on cheques) +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/ocr-a/* + + +Subject: Old English + +Note On Terminology: + Old English is a language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons in Britain up + until the first half or so of the 12th century. It is used to refer + to fonts used for setting the Old English language. + The term `Old English' is also used to mean the Black Letter fonts + used by mediaeval scribes, and called Gothic. Unfortunately, some + American typefounding companies use `Gothic' to mean `sans-serif'. + Both the Anglo-Saxon character sets and the ornamental Black Letter + fonts are listed here. + +Julian Bradfield's font for typesetting Old English in TeX -- this supplies +extra characters for Computer Modern. The extra characters are eth, Eth, +Thorn, thorn, yogh, Yogh and Polish ogonek. There are two styles of thorn, +but I note that there is no wynn. You may have to create an empty file, or +rename a file -- I forget exactly what I had to do. Some of these characters +can also be found in the International Phonetic Alphabet font as well, but +Julian's are much more convenient for working with Old English. + +Yannis' Fraktur fonts include ygoth, which can be used as +an Old English Black Letter. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/ygoth + + +Subject: Oriya + +Sabita Panigrahi is working on Oriya (one of the modern Indian scripts), +but this is not yet available. + +Subject: Pandora + +This is a little like Palatino, annd includes a sans-serif variant. +It is not yet of production quality, unfortunately. + +ftp: gatekeeper.dec.com; cd tex82/MFcontrib/metafonts/pandora +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/pandora/* +mail: (N. N. Billawa) sun!metamarks!nm +mail: (Tom Tatlow) tatlow@dash.enet.dec.com or tom@math.mit.edu + +Subject: Pica + +There is also a Pica typewriter font -- italic and bold come out with +straight and wavy underlines (respectively), however. +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/cmpica/* + + +Subject: Pointing Hands + +Various manual extremities, designed by Georgia Tobin +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/hands/* + +Subject: Punk + +A punK hAndWritten fOnT... +For writing on walls, perhaps. The lower case is simply a smaller +version of the upper case. +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/punk/* + +Subject: Ransom + +This isn't a Metafont font, but you can get the gf, pk and tfm files at +10.300 size from: +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/ransom/* + +Subject: Sanskrit +(see Fonts: Devanagari) + + +Subject: Sauter + +This is a rework of Computer Modern by John Sauter. The outlines are the +same, as far as I know, but it is much easier to generate the various fonts. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/cm/sauter/* + + +Subject: Script + +Ralph Smith's formal script - rasmith@ucsd.edu +See TeXhax 92 #16. +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/rsfs/* + +Subject: Symbol + +There are varions fonts with special symbols, including: +A recycling symbol: +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/recycle/* + +The stmary symbol font: +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/stmary/* + + + +Subject: Tamil + +(Tamil is a very beautiful squiggly Indian script) +An unfinished version of Washington Tamil is available from the University +of Washington, and is included on their Unix TeX distribution in directory: +TeX3.14/MFcontrib/metafonts/washington/tamil together with supporting software. +ftp: blackbox.hacc.washington.edu pub/wntml + +Avinash Chopde's (avinash@acm.org) ITRANS package (a pre-processor for TeX) +supports Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit (Devanagari), Tamil, Telugu, Bengali. +It includes a PostScript (Type 3) font for Devanagari, and a Metafont Tamil +font (wntml). +ftp: Unix: cs.duke.edu in dist/sources/itrans32.tar.Z +ftp: MS/DOS: oak.oakland.edu pub/msdos/tex/itrans32.zip +ftp: PostScript printer ready docs are in itransps.tar.Z or itransps.zip. + +T. Govindaraj (tg@chmsr.gatech.edu) has created a Palladam Tamil font; +ftp: isye.gatech.edu nights & weekends only +Bala Swaminathan's Thiruppaavai files are also there. + + +See Also: Devanagari, Oriya + +Subject: Tengwar + +There are at least two Tengwar fonts, +Mike Urban's: +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/tengwar/* + +Julian Bradfield <jcb@lfcs.edinburgh.ac.uk> also has both Tengwar and a +prototype version of Cirth runes. +See Fonts: Cirth for details. + +Subject: Thai + +There are at least three Thai fonts around. The rmit font is a little tricky +to make, as it needs to be in a directory called ``thai2'', because it +refers to files called "../thai2/name". USL makes easily. +The third Thai font is by Dr. Robert Batzinger and associates at the United +Bible Societies in Southeast Asia. I know no more than this. + +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/thai/rmit/* +ftp: ctan: tex-archive/thai/usl/* + +Subject: Times + +Formerly produced by the Metafoundry, which is no longer operating. +Pk (binary) files may be available commercialy; Georgina Tobin works as a +Metafont consultant and has since done more work on Times. +See Also: Fonts: Helvetica + +Subject: Vietnamese + +This test package includes tfm and pk fonts at 10 point roman and italic. +I understand that you need TeX 3.0 or later to use this, and drivers that +cope with fonts containing more than 128 characters. + +ftp: blackbox.hacc.washington.edu cd /pub/testviet + +A large collection of Vietnamese Mf (and PK) fonts is available; these fonts +follow the Viet-Std VISCII 1.1 font encoding specification. + +ftp: media.mit.edu, directory /pub/Vietnet/Viscii/Tex, files +ftp: vncmr.pk.tar.Z and vncmr.mf.tar.Z; the encoding report is +ftp: under /pub/Vietnet/Viet-std. + +Subject: Waldi Symbol Font + +A (compatible) superset of the standard LaTeX symbol font designed by Roland +Waldi, at the University of Karlruhe in Germany. + +ftp: forwiss.uni-passau.de; pub/unix/tex/dhdurz1/wasy.zoo +ftp: ftp.cs.ruu.nl; ATARI-ST/tex/wasy.arc + + +End of Font List + +$Id: mf1.faq,v 1.43 94/06/30 17:13:39 lee Exp Locker: lee $ + + + +-- +Liam Quin, Manager of Contracting, SoftQuad Inc +1 416 239 4801 lee@sq.com +HexSweeper NeWS game;OPEN LOOK+XView+mf-fonts FAQs;lq-text unix text retrieval +SoftQuad HoTMetaL: ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu:Web/html/hotmetal, and also doc.ic.ac.uk: +packages/WWW/ncsa/..., gatekeeper.dec.com:net/infosys/Mosaic/contrib/SoftQuad/ |