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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 +Plain TeX, so that some macros of Plain TeX need to be changed to +use the fonts. LaTeX gets around all these problems by using a +“font selection scheme” — this ‘NFSS’ (‘N’ for +‘new’, as opposed to what LaTeX 2.09 had) carries around with it +separate information about the fonts you use, so the changes to +encoding-specific commands happen automagically. +<p/>If you only want to use the <a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">EC fonts</a>, you +can in principle use the <i>ec-plain</i> bundle, which gives you a version +of Plain TeX which you can run in the same way that you run +Plain TeX using the original CM fonts, by invoking +<i>tex</i>. (<i>Ec-plain</i> also extends the EC fonts, +for reasons which aren’t immediately clear, but which might cause +problems if you’re hoping to use Type 1 versions of the fonts.) +<p/>The <i>font_selection</i> package provides a sort of halfway house: +it provides font face and size, but not family selection. This gives +you considerable freedom, but leaves you stuck with the original +CM fonts. It’s a compact solution, within its restrictions. +<p/>Other Plain TeX approaches to the problem (packages +<i>plnfss</i>, <i>fontch</i> and <i>ofs</i>) break out of the +Plain TeX model, towards the sort of font selection provided by +ConTeXt and LaTeX — font selection that allows you to change +family, as well as size and face. The remaining packages all make +provision for using encodings other than Knuth’s OT1. +<p/><i>Plnfss</i> has a rather basic set of font family details; +however, it is capable of using font description (<code>.fd</code>) files +created for LaTeX. (This is useful, since most modern mechanisms +for integrating outline fonts with TeX generate <code>.fd</code> files +in their process.) +<p/><i>Fontch</i> has special provision for T1 and TS1 +encodings, which you select by arcane commands, such as: +<blockquote> +<pre> +\let\LMTone\relax +\input fontch.tex +</pre> +</blockquote><p> +for T1. +<p/><i>Ofs</i> seems to be the most thoroughly thought-through of the +alternatives, and can select more than one encoding: as well as +T1 it covers the encoding IL2, which is favoured in the +Czech Republic and Slovakia. <i>Ofs</i> also covers mathematical fonts, +allowing you the dubious pleasure of using fonts such as the +<a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html"><i>pxfonts</i> and <i>txfonts</i></a>. +<p/>The <i>pdcmac</i> Plain TeX macro package aims to be a complete +document preparation environment, like <a href="FAQ-eplain.html">Eplain</a>. One +of its components is a font selection scheme, <i>pdcfsel</i>, which +is rather simple but adequately powerful for many uses. The package +doesn’t preload fonts: the user is required to declare the fonts the +document is going to use, and the package provides commands to select +fonts as they’re needed. The distribution includes a configuration to +use Adobe ‘standard’ fonts for typesetting text. (Eplain itself +seems not to offer a font selection scheme.) +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>ec-plain</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ec-plain.zip">macros/ec-plain</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ec-plain.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/ec-plain/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>fontch</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/fontch.zip">macros/plain/contrib/fontch</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/fontch.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/fontch/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>font_selection</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/font_selection.zip">macros/plain/contrib/font_selection</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/font_selection.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/font_selection/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>ofs</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/ofs.zip">macros/generic/ofs</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/ofs.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/ofs/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>pdcmac</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac.zip">macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>plnfss</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/plnfss/">macros/plain/contrib/plnfss/</a> +</dl> +<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fonts-pln">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fonts-pln</a> +</body> |