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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label usepsfont</title>
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-<h3>Using PostScript fonts with TeX</h3>
-<p/>In order to use PostScript fonts, TeX needs
-<em>metric</em> (called TFM) files. Several sets of metrics are
+<h3>Using Adobe Type 1 fonts with TeX</h3>
+<p/>In order to use any font, TeX needs a
+<em>metric</em> file (TFM file). Several sets of metrics for
+common Adobe Type 1 fonts are
available from the archives; for mechanisms for generating new ones,
see <a href="FAQ-metrics.html">metrics for PostScript fonts</a>. You
also need the fonts themselves; PostScript printers come with a set of
-fonts built in, but to extend your repertoire you almost invariably
+fonts built in, but to extend your repertoire you usually
need to buy from one of the many commercial font vendors (see, for
example, <a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html">&#8220;choice of fonts&#8221;</a>).
-<p/>If you use LaTeX2e, the best way to get PostScript fonts into your
-document is to use the PSNFSS package maintained by Walter
-Schmidt. The LaTeX3 project team declare that PSNFSS is
-&#8220;required&#8221;, and bug reports may be submitted via the
+<p/>If you use LaTeX2e, access to your printer&#8217;s fonts is offered by the
+PSNFSS package; the LaTeX3 project team declare that
+PSNFSS is a &#8220;required&#8221; part of a LaTeX distribution, and
+bug reports may be submitted via the
<a href="FAQ-latexbug.html">LaTeX bugs system</a>.
PSNFSS gives you a set of packages for changing the default
roman, sans-serif and typewriter fonts; <em>e.g</em>., the
@@ -36,14 +37,10 @@ the fonts is not the same as Computer Modern it will be up to you to
redefine various macros and accents, or you can use the font
re-encoding mechanisms available in many drivers and in
<i>ps2pk</i> and <i>afm2tfm</i>.
-<p/>Victor Eijkhout&#8217;s <a href="FAQ-lollipop.html">Lollipop package</a>
-supports declaration of font families and styles in a similar way to
-LaTeX&#8217;s NFSS, and so is easy to use with PostScript fonts.
<p/>Some common problems encountered are discussed elsewhere
(see <a href="FAQ-psfontprob.html">problems with PS fonts</a>).
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<dt><tt><i>Metrics for the &#8216;Laserwriter&#8217; set of 35 fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/psnfss/lw35nfss.zip">macros/latex/required/psnfss/lw35nfss.zip</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/lw35nfss.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>lollipop</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/lollipop.zip">macros/lollipop</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/lollipop/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/lollipop.html">catalogue entry</a>
<dt><tt><i>psnfss</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/psnfss.zip">macros/latex/required/psnfss</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/required/psnfss/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/psnfss.html">catalogue entry</a>
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