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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-amfonts.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-amfonts.html index e4abccf5f8a..9aa1632b47f 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-amfonts.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-amfonts.html @@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ </head><body> <h3>Where are the <code>am</code> fonts?</h3> <p/>One <em>still</em> occasionally comes across a request for the <i>am</i> -series of fonts. The initials stood for ‘Almost [Computer] Modern’, +series of fonts. The initials stood for ‘Almost [Computer] Modern’, and they were the predecessors of the Computer Modern fonts that we all know and love (or hate) . -There’s not a lot one can do with these +There’s not a lot one can do with these fonts; they are (as their name implies) almost (but not quite) the -same as the <i>cm</i> series; if you’re faced with a document that requests +same as the <i>cm</i> series; if you’re faced with a document that requests them, the only reasonable approach is to edit the document to replace <i>am*</i> font names with <i>cm*</i>. <p/>The appearance of DVI files that request them is sufficiently @@ -18,10 +18,10 @@ translation of them by means of virtual fonts. <p/>You therefore have to fool the system into using <i>cm*</i> fonts where the original author specified <i>am*</i>. <p/>One option is the font substitutions that many -DVI drivers provide via their configuration file — +DVI drivers provide via their configuration file — specify that every <i>am</i> font should be replaced by its corresponding <i>cm</i> font. -<p/>Alternatively, one may try DVI editing — packages +<p/>Alternatively, one may try DVI editing — packages <i>dtl</i> (DVI Text Language) and <i>dviasm</i> (DVI assembler) can both provide round trips from DVI to text and back to DVI. One therefore edits font names @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ about through the body, so: <code>python dviasm.py -o</code> <<i>edited.dvi</i>> <<i>edited.txt</i>> </blockquote><p> Both routes seem acceptable ways forward; it is a matter of taste -which any particular user may choose (it’s not likely that it will be +which any particular user may choose (it’s not likely that it will be necessary very often...). <dl> <dt><tt><i>dviasm.py</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dviasm.zip">dviware/dviasm</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dviasm/">browse the directory</a>) |