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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usepsfont.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usepsfont.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..56621c87624 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-usepsfont.html @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label usepsfont</title> +</head><body> +<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 +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 +need to buy from one of the many commercial font vendors (see, for +example, <a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html">“choice of fonts”</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 +“required”, 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 +<i>mathptmx</i> package will set up <i>Times</i> +<i>Roman</i> as the main text font (and introduces mechanisms to +typeset mathematics using <i>Times</i> and various more-or-less +matching fonts), while package <i>avant</i> changes the sans-serif +family to <i>AvantGarde</i>, and <i>courier</i> changes the +typewriter font to <i>Courier</i>. To go with these +packages, you need the font metric files +and font description (<i>.fd</i>) files for each font family you +want to use. For convenience, +metrics for the ‘common 35’ PostScript fonts found in most PostScript printers +are provided with PSNFSS, packaged as the “Laserwriter set”. +<p/>For older versions of LaTeX there are various schemes, of which the +simplest to use is probably the PSLaTeX macros distributed with +<i>dvips</i>. +<p/>For Plain TeX, you load whatever fonts you like; if the encoding of +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’s <a href="FAQ-lollipop.html">Lollipop package</a> +supports declaration of font families and styles in a similar way to +LaTeX’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>). +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>Metrics for the ‘Laserwriter’ set of 35 fonts</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss/lw35nfss.zip">macros/latex/required/psnfss/lw35nfss.zip</a> +<dt><tt><i>lollipop</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/lollipop.zip">macros/lollipop</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/lollipop.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/lollipop/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>psnfss</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss.zip">macros/latex/required/psnfss</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/required/psnfss/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=usepsfont">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=usepsfont</a> +</body> |