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+<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">&ldquo;choice of fonts&rdquo;</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
+&ldquo;required&rdquo;, 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 &lsquo;common 35&rsquo; PostScript fonts found in most PostScript printers
+are provided with PSNFSS, packaged as the &ldquo;Laserwriter set&rdquo;.
+<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&rsquo;s <a href="FAQ-lollipop.html">Lollipop package</a>
+supports declaration of font families and styles in a similar way to
+LaTeX&rsquo;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 &lsquo;Laserwriter&rsquo; 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>