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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-fonts.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-fonts.tex index 364bae81c4b..0df8df5671f 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-fonts.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/faq-fonts.tex @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -% $Id: faq-fonts.tex,v 1.17 2011/09/04 10:03:23 rf10 Exp $ +% $Id: faq-fonts.tex,v 1.20 2012/11/24 10:56:03 rf10 Exp $ \section{Fonts} @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ have a couple options: \PS{} previewer. Some systems offer this capability as standard, but most people will need to use a separate previewer such as \ProgName{ghostscript} or \ProgName{ghostscript}-based viewers - such as \ProgName{gv} or shareware offering \ProgName{GSview}. + such as (free) \ProgName{gv} or (shareware) \ProgName{GSview}. % \item Under Windows on a \acro{PC}, or on a Macintosh, let Adobe Type Manager % display the fonts (textures, on the Macintosh, works like this). % %% , and under @@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ want to override them. Even the casual user may find more hyphenation or overfull boxes than Computer Modern produces; but \acro{CM} is extremely generous. -\Question[Q-psfchoice]{Choice of scalable outline fonts} +\Question[Q-psfchoice]{Choice of Type~1 fonts for typesetting Maths} If you are interested in text alone, you can in principle use any of the huge numbers of text fonts in Adobe Type~1, TrueType or OpenType @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ by \URL{http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb14-3/tb40horn.pdf} or \URL{http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb19-2/tb59bouc.pdf}, respectively). \end{narrowversion} -For mathematics, then, there are relatively few choices (though the list is +For mathematics, then, there are rather few choices (though the list is at last growing). There are several font families available that are based on Knuth's original designs, and some that complement other commercial text font designs; one set (MicroPress's `informal math') @@ -226,6 +226,7 @@ mathematics include: fonts are now freely available from \acro{CTAN}. Their quality is such that they have become the \emph{de facto} standard for Type~1 versions of the fonts. + \item[\acro{AMS} fonts](52 fonts, optical scaling) The \acro{AMS}\\ This set of fonts offers adjuncts to the \acro{CM} set, including two sets of symbol fonts (\FontName{msam} and \FontName{msbm}) and @@ -237,7 +238,8 @@ mathematics include: of the Euler maths alphabet in conjunction with text fonts that do not provide maths alphabets of their own (for instance, Adobe Palatino or Minion). -\item[mathpazo version 1.003](5 fonts) Diego Puga\\ + +\item[Mathpazo version 1.003](5 fonts) Diego Puga\\ The Pazo Math fonts are a family of type~1 fonts suitable for typesetting maths in combination with the Palatino family of text fonts. Four of the five fonts of the distribution are maths @@ -248,6 +250,7 @@ mathematics include: \Qref*{\acro{PSNFSS}}{Q-usepsfont}; the fonts are licensed under the \acro{GPL}, with legalese permitting the use of the fonts in published documents. + \item[Fourier/Utopia](15 fonts) Michel Bovani\\ \FontName{Fourier} is a family built on Adobe \FontName{Utopia} (which has been released for usage free of charge by Adobe). The @@ -260,11 +263,13 @@ mathematics include: expected to use \acro{T}1. For a sample, see \url{http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/utopia/} + \item[Fourier/New Century Schoolbook]Michael Zedler\\ \FontName{Fouriernc} is a configuration using the Fourier fonts in the context of New Century Schoolbook text fonts. For a sample, see \url{http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/newcent/} + \item[KP-fonts]The Johannes Kepler project\\ The \FontName{kp-fonts} family provides a comprehensive set of text and maths fonts. The set includes replacement fixed-width and sans @@ -273,17 +278,14 @@ mathematics include: \Package{kpfonts} \LaTeX{} support package). For an example, see \url{http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/kpserif/} -\item[MathDesign](4 entire families\dots{}so far) Paul Pichaureau\\ - This set so far offers mathematics fonts to match Adobe Utopia, URW - Garamond, Bitstream Charter (all of which are separately available, - on \acro{CTAN}, in Type~1 format) and Fontsite Garamond - (which is a commercial font, available from the % ! line wrap (twice) -\begin{wideversion} - \href{FontSite Web shop}{http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/FFDownloads.html}). -\end{wideversion} -\begin{narrowversion} - FontSite Web shop, \URL{http://www.fontsite.com/Pages/FFDownloads.html}). -\end{narrowversion} + +\item[MathDesign](3 free families, 3 commercial-based + families\dots{}so far) Paul Pichaureau\\ + This set so far offers mathematics fonts to match the free fonts + Adobe Utopia, URW Garamond and Bitstream Charter (the text versions + of all of which are separately available, on \acro{CTAN}, in Type~1 + format), and Adobe Garamond Pro, Adobe UtopiaStd and ITC Charter + (which are commercial fonts, all available for purchase on the web). There has been a little comment on these fonts, but none from actual users posted to the public forums. Users, particularly those who are willing to discuss their experiences, would obviously @@ -294,6 +296,7 @@ mathematics include: \url{http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/charter/} for URW Charter, \url{http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/garamond/} for URW Garamond and \url{http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/utopia-md/} for Adobe Utopia. + \item[Belleek](3 fonts) Richard Kinch\\ Belleek is the upshot of Kinch's thoughts on how \MF{} might be used in the future: they were published simultaneously as \MF{} source, @@ -304,15 +307,15 @@ mathematics include: The paper outlining Kinch's thoughts, proceeding from considerations of the `intellectual' superiority of \MF{} to evaluations of why its adoption is so limited and what might be done about the problem, is - to be found at \URL{http://truetex.com/belleek.pdf} (the paper is a - good read, but is set with Bitmap fonts, and can be difficult - on-screen in Acrobat reader 5 or earlier). + to be found at \URL{http://truetex.com/belleek.pdf} + \item[MTPro2 Lite]Pubish or Perish (Michael Spivak)\\ A (functional) subset of the MathTime Pro 2 font set, that is made available, free, for general use. While it does not offer the full power of the commercial product (see below), it is nevertheless a desirable font set. -\item[mathptmx]Alan Jeffrey, Walter Schmidt and others.\\ + +\item[Mathptmx]Alan Jeffrey, Walter Schmidt and others.\\ This set contains maths italic, symbol, extension, and roman virtual fonts, built from Adobe Times, Symbol, Zapf Chancery, and the Computer Modern fonts. The resulting mixture is not entirely @@ -322,9 +325,11 @@ mathematics include: is available in \Qref*{\acro{PSNFSS}}{Q-usepsfont}. For a sample, see \url{http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/times/} + \item[Computer Modern Bright]Free scalable outline versions of these fonts do exist; they are covered below together with their commercial parallels. + \item[URW Classico](4 fonts) LaTeX support by Bob Tennent\\ These are clones of Zapf's Optima available from CTAN (for non-commercial use only). Mathematics support can be provided by @@ -371,6 +376,7 @@ commercially, include: For further details (including samples) see\\ \URL{http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/chmath/chmain.htm} \nothtml{\par\egroup} + \item[Computer Modern Bright](62 fonts~--- optical scaling) Walter Schmidt\\ \acro{CM} Bright is a family of sans serif fonts, based on Knuth's @@ -388,6 +394,7 @@ commercially, include: For further details of Micropress' offering (including samples) see\\ \URL{http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/brmath/brmain.htm} \nothtml{\par\egroup} + \item[Concrete Math](25 fonts~--- optical scaling) Ulrik Vieth\\ The Concrete Math font set was derived from the Concrete Roman typefaces designed by Knuth. The set provides a collection of math @@ -404,6 +411,7 @@ commercially, include: For further information (including samples) see\\ \URL{http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/ccmath/ccmain.htm} \nothtml{\par\egroup} + \item[HV Math](14 fonts) MicroPress Inc.\\ HV Math is a family of sans serif fonts, inspired by the Helvetica (\acro{TM}) typeface. HV Math comprises the fonts @@ -419,6 +427,7 @@ commercially, include: For further details (and samples) see\\ \URL{http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/hvmath/hvmain.htm} \nothtml{\par\egroup} + \item[Informal Math](7 outline fonts) MicroPress Inc.\\ Informal Math is a family of fanciful fonts loosely based on the Adobe's Tekton (\acro{TM}) family, fonts which imitate handwritten @@ -432,6 +441,7 @@ commercially, include: For further details (including samples) see\\ \URL{http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/ifmath/ifmain.htm} \nothtml{\par\egroup} + \item[Lucida Bright \emph{with} Lucida New Math](25 fonts) Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes\\ Lucida is a family of related fonts including seriffed, sans serif, @@ -457,6 +467,7 @@ commercially, include: \end{wideversion} has details. \nothtml{\par\egroup} + \item[Adobe Lucida, LucidaSans \emph{and} LucidaMath](12 fonts)\\ Lucida and LucidaMath are generally considered to be a bit heavy. The three maths fonts contain only the glyphs in the \acro{CM} maths @@ -465,6 +476,7 @@ commercially, include: reencoding fonts \emph{etc}. (In some sense this set is the ancestor of the LucidaBright plus LucidaNewMath font set, which are not currently available.) + \item[MathTime Pro2]Publish or Perish (Michael Spivak)\\ This latest instance of the MathTime family covers all the weights (medium, bold and heavy) and symbols of previous versions of @@ -478,6 +490,7 @@ commercially, include: For further details and samples and fliers, see \URL{http://www.pctex.com/mtpro2.html} \nothtml{\par\egroup} + \item[Minion Pro and MnSymbol]Adobe, \LaTeX{} support and packaging by Achim Blumensath \emph{et al}.\\ \FontName{Minion Pro} derives from the widely-available commercial @@ -486,6 +499,7 @@ commercially, include: \Package{MinionPro} package will set up text and maths support using \FontName{Minion Pro}, but a separate (free) font set \FontName{MnSymbol} greatly extends the symbol coverage. + \item[PA Math] PA~Math is a family of serif fonts loosely based on the Palatino (\acro{TM}) typeface. PA~Math comprises the fonts necessary for mathematical typesetting (maths @@ -500,6 +514,7 @@ commercially, include: For further details (and samples) see\\ \URL{http://www.micropress-inc.com/fonts/pamath/pamain.htm} \nothtml{\par\egroup} + \item[TM Math](14 fonts) MicroPress Inc.\\ TM Math is a family of serif fonts, inspired by the Times (\acro{TM}) typeface. TM Math comprises the fonts necessary for @@ -520,7 +535,7 @@ Two other font sets should be mentioned, even though they don't currently produce satisfactory output~--- their author is no longer working on them, and several problems have been identified: \begin{booklist} -\item[pxfonts set version 1.0](26 fonts) by Young Ryu\\ +\item[Pxfonts set version 1.0](26 fonts) by Young Ryu\\ The \FontName{pxfonts} set consists of \begin{itemize} \item virtual text fonts using \FontName{Adobe} \FontName{Palatino} @@ -549,10 +564,12 @@ working on them, and several problems have been identified: The fonts are licensed under the \acro{GPL}; use in published documents is permitted. -\item[txfonts set version 3.1](42 fonts) by Young Ryu\\ + +\item[Txfonts set version 3.1](42 fonts) by Young Ryu\\ The \FontName{txfonts} set consists of \begin{itemize} - \item virtual text fonts using \FontName{Adobe} \FontName{Times} (or the \acro{URW} + \item virtual text fonts using \FontName{Adobe} \FontName{Times} (or + the \acro{URW} replacement used by \ProgName{ghostscript}) with modified plus, equal and slash symbols; \item matching sets of sans serif and monospace (`typewriter') @@ -574,18 +591,31 @@ working on them, and several problems have been identified: The fonts are licensed under the \acro{GPL}; use in published documents is permitted. -\item[txfontsb set version 1.00] by Young Ryu and Antonis Tsolomitis\\ + +\item[Txfontsb set version 1.00] by Young Ryu and Antonis Tsolomitis\\ The \ProgName{txfontsb} bundles \ProgName{txfonts}, extended to provide a Small Caps set, Old-Style numbers and Greek text (from the GNU Freefont set). \begin{flatversion} Documentation - (\URL{http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/txfontsb/doc/txfontsb/txfontsb.pdf}) + (\URL{http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/txfontsb/doc/txfontsb.pdf}) \end{flatversion} \begin{hyperversion} - \href{http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/txfontsb/doc/txfontsb/txfontsb.pdf}{Documentation} + \href{http://mirrors.ctan.org/fonts/txfontsb/doc/txfontsb.pdf}{Documentation} \end{hyperversion} is available for this variant, too. + +\item[Newtx]by Michael Sharpe from Young Ryu's \ProgName{txfonts}\\ + This collection is derived from \ProgName{txfonts}; the maths fonts + metrics have been adjusted so that the output is less cramped than + when \ProgName{txfonts} is used; the appearance of the output is + much improved. Two packages are provided, \Package{newtxtext} for + using the associated text fonts, and \Package{newtxmath} for + mathematics. Options are provided to substitute + letters and symbols from the \FontName{Libertine} set, and from the + Garamond extension font \FontName{garamondx} (but note that + \FontName{garamondx}, which is an adaptation of \acro{URW} Garamond, + is not available via \texlive{}). \end{booklist} Finally, one must not forget: \begin{booklist} @@ -598,10 +628,10 @@ Finally, one must not forget: than those that are. \end{booklist} We observe a very limited selection of commercial maths font sets; a -maths font has to be explicitly designed for use with \TeX{}, which is -an expensive business, and is of little appeal in other markets. -Furthermore, the \TeX{} market for commercial fonts is minute by -comparison with the huge sales of other font sets. +Type~1 maths font has to be explicitly designed for use with \TeX{}, +which is an expensive business, and is of little appeal in other +markets. Furthermore, the \TeX{} market for commercial fonts is +minute by comparison with the huge sales of other font sets. Text fonts in Type~1 format are available from many vendors including Adobe, Monotype and Bitstream. However, be careful with cheap font @@ -643,10 +673,12 @@ print file (\PS{} or \acro{PDF}) for their output device. \item[fourier \nothtml{\normalfont}(including metrics and other support for \nothtml{\itshape}utopia]% \CTANref{fourier} \item[fouriernc]\CTANref{fouriernc} +\item[garamondx]\CTANref{garamondx} \item[hfbright \nothtml{\normalfont}collection]\CTANref{hfbright} \item[hvmath \nothtml{\normalfont\itshape}(free bitmapped version)]% \CTANref{hvmath} \item[kpfonts \nothtml{\normalfont}family]\CTANref{kpfonts} +\item[Libertine \nothtml{\normalfont}family]\CTANref{libertine} \item[Lucida Bright/Math metrics]\CTANref{lucida} \item[Lucida PSNFSS support]\CTANref{lucida-psnfss} \item[MathDesign \nothtml{\normalfont}collection]\CTANref{mathdesign} @@ -655,6 +687,7 @@ print file (\PS{} or \acro{PDF}) for their output device. \item[\nothtml{\normalfont}MathTime Pro 2 Lite]\CTANref{mtp2lite} \item[\nothtml{\normalfont}Minion Pro support]\CTANref{minionpro} \item[MnSymbol \nothtml{\normalfont}family]\CTANref{mnsymbol} +\item[Newtx \nothtml{\normalfont}fonts]\CTANref{newtx} \item[pxfonts]\CTANref{pxfonts} \item[sansmath.sty]\CTANref{sansmath} \item[tmmath \nothtml{\normalfont\itshape}(free bitmapped version)]% @@ -662,7 +695,7 @@ print file (\PS{} or \acro{PDF}) for their output device. \item[txfonts]\CTANref{txfonts} \item[utopia \nothtml{\normalfont}fonts]\CTANref{utopia} \end{ctanrefs} -\LastEdit{2011-03-23} +\LastEdit{2012-10-24} \Question[Q-charshift]{Weird characters in \ProgName{dvips} output} \keywords{fi ligature pound pounds sterling elephants} @@ -681,7 +714,8 @@ explicitly, \emph{don't}; if you were using \texttt{-Ppdf}, add \texttt{-G0} to suppress the implicit switch in the pseudo-printer file. The problem has been corrected in \ProgName{dvips} v~5.90 (and later -versions), which should be available in any recent \TeX{} distribution. +versions); it is unlikely ever to recur\dots{} +\LastEdit{2012-10-24} \subsection{Macros for using fonts} @@ -716,13 +750,12 @@ Text set using nonstdfont italic... \end{quote} This is all very elementary stuff, and serves for simple use of fonts. However, there are wrinkles, the most important of which is the matter -of \Qref*{font encodings}{Q-whatenc}. Unfortunately, many fonts that -have appeared recently simply don't come in versions using Knuth's -eccentric font encodings~--- but those encodings are built into -\plaintex{}, so that some macros of \plaintex{} need to be changed to -use the fonts. \LaTeX{} gets around all these problems by using a -``font selection scheme''~--- this `\acro{NFSS}' (`\acro{N}' for -`new', as opposed to what \LaTeXo{} had) carries around with it +of \Qref*{font encodings}{Q-whatenc}. One almost never sees new fonts +that use Knuth's eccentric font encodings~--- but those encodings are +built into \plaintex{}, so that some macros of \plaintex{} need to be +changed to use the fonts. \LaTeX{} gets around all these problems by +using a ``font selection scheme''~--- this `\acro{NFSS}' (`\acro{N}' +for `new', as opposed to what \LaTeXo{} had) carries around with it separate information about the fonts you use, so the changes to encoding-specific commands happen automagically. |