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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2012-03-30 22:59:00 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2012-03-30 22:59:00 +0000
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@@ -286,29 +286,43 @@ updated only once a day, a nightly automatic download (perhaps using
\Question[Q-findfont]{Finding new fonts}
-A comprehensive list of \MF{} fonts used to be posted to
-\Newsgroup{comp.fonts} and to \Newsgroup{comp.text.tex}, roughly
-every six weeks, by Lee Quin.
-Nowadays, authors of new material in \MF{} are few and far between
-(and mostly designing highly specialised things with limited appeal to
-ordinary users); as a result, no-one has taken over maintenance of the
-list of fonts. If you need a font for some esoteric purpose, it may
-be worth \Qref*{searching \acro{CTAN}}{Q-findfiles} using your purpose
-as a search keyword.
-
-Most new fonts that appear are prepared in some scalable outline form
-or other, and a large proportion is distributed under commercial
-terms. However, once you have acquired such a font, converting it to
-a form usable by your \AllTeX{} distribution is not (in principle) a
-serious problem.
+Nowadays, new fonts are seldom developed by industrious people using
+\mf{}, but if such do appear, they will nowadays be distributed in
+the same way as any other part of \alltex{} collections. (An
+historical review of Metafont fonts available is held on \acro{CTAN}
+as ``\mf{} font list''.) Nowadays, most new fonts that appear are
+only available in some scalable outline form, and a large proportion
+is distributed under commercial terms.
+
+Such fonts often make their way to the free distributions (at least
+\texlive{} and \miktex{}) if their licensing is such that the
+distributions can accept them. Commercial fonts do not get to
+distributions, though support for some of them is held by \acro{CTAN}.
+
+Arranging for a new font to be usable by \alltex{} is very different,
+depending on which type of font it is, and which \tex{}-alike engine
+you are using; roughly speaking:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item MetaFont fonts will work without much fuss (provided their
+ sources are in the correct place in the installation's tree);
+ \tex{}-with-\ProgName{dvips}, and \pdftex{} are ``happy'' with them.
+\item Adobe Type 1 fonts can be made to work, after \extension{tfm}
+ and (usually) \extension{vf} files have been created from their
+ metric (\extension{afm}) files.
+\item TrueType fonts can be made to work with \pdftex{}, using the
+ techniques discussed in ANSWER TO BE WRITTEN
+\item TrueType and OpenType fonts are the usual sort used by \xetex{}
+ and \luatex{}; they ``just work'' with those engines.
+\end{itemize}
The answer ``\Qref*{choice of scalable fonts}{Q-psfchoice}'' discusses
fonts that are configured for general (both textual and mathematical)
use with \AllTeX{}. The list of such fonts is sufficiently short that
-they \emph{can} all be discussed in one answer here.
+they \emph{can} all be discussed in one answer.
\begin{ctanrefs}
\item[\nothtml{\rmfamily}\MF{} font list]\CTANref{mf-list}
\end{ctanrefs}
+\LastEdit{2012-03-27}
\Question[Q-CD]{The \TeX{} collection}