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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2012-03-30 22:59:00 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2012-03-30 22:59:00 +0000 |
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FAQ-en (30mar12)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-getit.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-getit.tex index 7b7af0a55bc..cc349bdcb11 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-getit.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-getit.tex @@ -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} |