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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label metrics</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>TeX font metric files for PostScript fonts</h3>
+<p/>Reputable font vendors such as Adobe supply metric files for each
+font, in AFM (Adobe Font Metric) form; these can be converted
+to TFM (TeX Font Metric) form. Most modern distributions have
+prebuilt metrics which will be more than enough for many people; but you may
+need to do the conversion yourself if you have special needs or
+acquire a new font. One important question is the <em>encoding</em> of
+(Latin character) fonts; while we all more or less agree about the
+position of about 96 characters in fonts (the basic ASCII set), the
+rest of the (typically) 256 vary. The most obvious problems are with
+floating accents and special characters such as the &lsquo;pounds sterling&rsquo;
+sign. There are three ways of dealing with this: either you change the
+TeX macros which reference the characters (not much fun, and
+error-prone); or you change the encoding of the font (easier than you
+might think); or you use <a href="FAQ-virtualfonts.html">virtual fonts</a> to
+<em>pretend</em> to TeX that the encoding is the same as it is used to.
+LaTeX2e has facilities for dealing with fonts in different
+encodings; read the <a href="FAQ-books.html"><em>LaTeX Companion</em></a> for
+more details. In practice, if you do much non-English (but Latin
+script) typesetting, you are strongly recommended to use the
+<i>fontenc</i> package with option &lsquo;<code>T1</code>&rsquo; to select
+<a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">&lsquo;Cork&rsquo;</a> encoding.
+A useful alternative is Y&amp;Y&rsquo;s &ldquo;private&rdquo; LY1 encoding,
+which is designed to sit well with &ldquo;Adobe standard&rdquo; encoded fonts.
+Basic support of LY1 is available on CTAN: note that the
+&ldquo;relation with Adobe&rsquo;s encoding&rdquo; means that there are no
+virtual fonts in the LY1 world.
+<p/>Alan Jeffrey&rsquo;s <i>fontinst</i> package is an AFM to
+TFM converter written in TeX; it is used to generate the
+files used by LaTeX2e&rsquo;s PSNFSS package to support use of
+PostScript fonts. It is a sophisticated package, not for the faint-hearted,
+but is powerful enough to cope with most needs. Much of its power
+relies on the use of <a href="FAQ-virtualfonts.html">virtual fonts</a>.
+<p/>For slightly simpler problems, Rokicki&rsquo;s <i>afm2tfm</i>,
+distributed with <i>dvips</i>, is fast and
+efficient; note that the metrics and styles that come with
+<i>dvips</i> are <em>not</em> currently LaTeX2e compatible.
+<p/>For the Macintosh (classic), there is a program called
+<i>EdMetrics</i> which does the job (and more).
+<i>EdMetrics</i> comes with the (commercial)
+<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">Textures</a> distribution, but is itself free
+software, and is available on CTAN.
+
+
+
+
+<dl>
+<dt><tt><i>dvips</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvips.zip">dviware/dvips</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvips.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dvips/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>EdMetrics</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/textures/utilities/EdMetrics.sea.hqx">systems/mac/textures/utilities/EdMetrics.sea.hqx</a>
+<dt><tt><i>fontinst</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst.zip">fonts/utilities/fontinst</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>LY1 support</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1.zip">macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1/">browse</a>)
+</dl>
+<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=metrics">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=metrics</a>
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