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The first approach that started to alleviate -these problems, was the development of virtual fonts that make -a good approach to the Cork encoding (see below). Now, however, we -have “true” Type 1 fonts available: as always, we have an -embarrassment of riches with three free alternatives, and one -commercial and one shareware version. -<p/><i>CM-super</i> is an -auto-traced set which encompasses all of the T1 and TS1 -encodings as well as the T2* series (the family of encodings -that cover languages based on Cyrillic alphabets). These fonts are -pretty easy to install (the installation instructions are clear), but -they are huge: don’t try to install them if you’re short of disc -space. -<p/><i>CM-LGC</i> is a similar “super-font” set, but of much more -modest size; it covers T1, TS1 and T2{A} -encodings (as does <i>CM-super</i>, and also covers the LGR -encoding (for typesetting Greek, based on Claudio Beccari’s Metafont -sources). <i>CM-LGC</i> manages to be small by going to the -opposite extreme from <i>CM-super</i>, which includes fonts at all -the sizes supported by the original EC (a huge range); -<i>CM-LGC</i> has one font per font shape, getting other sizes by -scaling. There is an inevitable loss of quality inherent in this -approach, but for the disc-space-challenged machine, <i>CM-LGC</i> -is an obvious choice. -<p/><i>Tt2001</i> is a simple scan of the EC and TC -fonts, and has some virtues — it’s noticeably smaller than -<i>CM-super</i> while being less stark than <i>CM-LGC</i>. -<p/><i>Latin</i> <i>Modern</i> is produced using the -program <a href="FAQ-textrace.html"><i>MetaType1</i></a>. The -<i>Latin</i> <i>Modern</i> set comes with T1, TS1 -LY1 encoded variants (as well as a variant using the Polish -QX encoding); for the glyph set it covers, its outlines seem -rather cleaner than those of <i>CM-super</i>. <i>Latin</i> -<i>Modern</i> is more modest in its disc space demands than is -<i>CM-super</i>, while not being nearly as stark in its range of -design sizes as is <i>CM-LGC</i> — <i>Latin</i> -<i>Modern</i>’s fonts are offered in the same set of sizes as the -original <i>CM</i> fonts. It’s hard to argue with the choice: -Knuth’s range of sizes has stood the test of time, and is one of the -bases on which the excellence of the TeX system rests. -<p/><a href="FAQ-virtualfonts.html">Virtual fonts</a> help us deal with the problem, -since they allow us to map “bits of DVI file” to single -characters in the virtual font; so we can create an “é” character -by recreating the DVI commands that would result from the code -“<code>\</code><code>’</code><code>e</code>”. However, since this involves two characters being -selected from a font, the arrangement is sufficient to fool -<i>Acrobat</i> <i>Reader</i>: you can’t use the program’s -facilities for searching for text that contains inflected characters, -and if you <em>cut</em> text from a window that contains such a -character, you’ll find something unexpected (typically the accent and -the ‘base’ characters separated by a space) when you <i>paste</i> -the result. However, if you can live with this difficulty, virtual -fonts are a useful and straightforward solution to the problem. -<p/>There are two virtual-font offerings of CM-based 8-bit -fonts — the <i>ae</i> (“almost EC”) and -<i>zefonts</i> sets; the <i>zefonts</i> set has wider coverage -(though the <i>ae</i> set may be extended to offer guillemets by -use of the <i>aeguill</i> package). Neither offers characters such -as <code>eth</code> and <code>thorn</code> (used in, for example, in -Icelandic), but the <i>aecompl</i> package works with the -<i>ae</i> fonts to provide the missing characters from the -EC fonts (i.e., as bitmaps). -<p/>The sole remaining commercial CM-like 8-bit font comes from -Micropress, who offer the complete EC set -in Type 1 format, as part of their range of outline versions of fonts -that were originally distributed in Metafont format. See -<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">“commercial distributions”</a>. -<p/>The shareware -<a href="FAQ-TeXsystems.html">BaKoMa TeX distribution</a> offers a -set of Type 1 EC fonts, as an extra shareware option. (As far -as the present author can tell, these fonts are <em>only</em> available -to users of BaKoMa TeX: they are stored in an archive format that -seems not to be publicly available.) -<p/>Finally, you can use one of the myriad text fonts available in Type 1 -format (with appropriate PSNFSS metrics for T1 encoding, -or metrics for some other 8-bit encoding such as LY1). However, -if you use someone else’s text font (even something as simple as -Adobe’s Times family) you have to find a matching family of -mathematical fonts, which is a non-trivial undertaking — -see <a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html">“choice of scalable fonts”</a>. -<dl> -<dt><tt><i>ae fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ae.zip">fonts/ae</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ae/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/ae.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>aecompl.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed with <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ae.zip">fonts/ae</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ae/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/ae.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>aeguill.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/aeguill.zip">macros/latex/contrib/aeguill</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/aeguill/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/aeguill.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>BaKoMa fonts</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/win32/bakoma/fonts">systems/win32/bakoma/fonts</a> -<dt><tt><i>CM-LGC fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc.zip">fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-lgc/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/cm-lgc.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>CM-super fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super.zip">fonts/ps-type1/cm-super</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/cm-super/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/cm-super.html">catalogue entry</a> (beware: - very large download) -<dt><tt><i>Latin Modern fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/lm.zip">fonts/lm</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/lm/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/lm.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>tt2001 fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/tt2001.zip">fonts/ps-type1/tt2001</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/ps-type1/tt2001/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/tt2001.html">catalogue entry</a> -<dt><tt><i>zefonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/zefonts.zip">fonts/zefonts</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/zefonts/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/zefonts.html">catalogue entry</a> -</dl> -<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=type1T1">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=type1T1</a> -</body> |