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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label fonts-pln</title>
</head><body>
<h3>Using non-standard fonts in Plain TeX</h3>
-<p>Plain TeX (in accordance with its description) doesn&rsquo;t do anything
+<p/>Plain TeX (in accordance with its description) doesn&rsquo;t do anything
fancy with fonts: it sets up the fonts that Knuth found he needed when
writing the package, and leaves you to do the rest.
-<p>To use something other than Knuth&rsquo;s default, the default mechanism is
+<p/>To use something other than Knuth&rsquo;s default, the default mechanism is
to use the <code>\</code><code>font</code> primitive:
<blockquote>
<pre>
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Text set using nonstdfont ...
</blockquote><p>
The name you use (<code>nonstdfont</code>, above) is the name of the
<code>.tfm</code> file for the font you want.
-<p>If you want to use an italic version of <code>\</code><code>foo</code>, you need to use
+<p/>If you want to use an italic version of <code>\</code><code>foo</code>, you need to use
<code>\</code><code>font</code> again:
<blockquote>
<pre>
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ The name you use (<code>nonstdfont</code>, above) is the name of the
Text set using nonstdfont italic...
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
-<p>This is all very elementary stuff, and serves for simple use of fonts.
+<p/>This is all very elementary stuff, and serves for simple use of fonts.
However, there are wrinkles, the most important of which is the matter
of <a href="FAQ-whatenc.html">font encodings</a>. Unfortunately, many fonts that
have appeared recently simply don&rsquo;t come in versions using Knuth&rsquo;s
@@ -38,29 +38,29 @@ selection scheme&rdquo; &mdash; this &lsquo;NFSS&rsquo; (&lsquo;N&rsquo; for &ls
opposed to what LaTeX 2.09 had) carries around with it separate
information about the fonts you use, so the changes to
encoding-specific commands happen automagically.
-<p>If you only want to use the <a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">EC fonts</a>, you
+<p/>If you only want to use the <a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">EC fonts</a>, you
can in principle use the <i>ec-plain</i> bundle, which gives you a version
of Plain TeX which you can run in the same way that you run
Plain TeX using the original CM fonts, by invoking
<i>tex</i>. (<i>Ec-plain</i> also extends the EC fonts,
for reasons which aren&rsquo;t immediately clear, but which might cause
problems if you&rsquo;re hoping to use Type 1 versions of the fonts.)
-<p>The <i>font_selection</i> package provides a sort of halfway house:
+<p/>The <i>font_selection</i> package provides a sort of halfway house:
it provides font face and size, but not family selection. This gives
you considerable freedom, but leaves you stuck with the original
CM fonts. It&rsquo;s a compact solution, within its restrictions.
-<p>Other Plain TeX approaches to the problem (packages
+<p/>Other Plain TeX approaches to the problem (packages
<i>plnfss</i>, <i>fontch</i> and <i>ofs</i>) break out of the
Plain TeX model, towards the sort of font selection provided by
ConTeXt and LaTeX &mdash; font selection that allows you to change
family, as well as size and face. The remaining packages all make
provision for using encodings other than Knuth&rsquo;s OT1.
-<p><i>Plnfss</i> has a rather basic set of font family details;
+<p/><i>Plnfss</i> has a rather basic set of font family details;
however, it is capable of using font description (<code>.fd</code>) files
created for LaTeX. (This is useful, since most modern mechanisms
for integrating outline fonts with TeX generate <code>.fd</code> files
in their process.)
-<p><i>Fontch</i> has special provision for T1 and TS1
+<p/><i>Fontch</i> has special provision for T1 and TS1
encodings, which you select by arcane commands, such as:
<blockquote>
<pre>
@@ -69,18 +69,28 @@ encodings, which you select by arcane commands, such as:
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
for T1.
-<p><i>Ofs</i> seems to be the most thoroughly thought-through of the
+<p/><i>Ofs</i> seems to be the most thoroughly thought-through of the
alternatives, and can select more than one encoding: as well as
T1 it covers the encoding IL2, which is favoured in the
Czech Republic and Slovakia. <i>Ofs</i> also covers mathematical fonts,
allowing you the dubious pleasure of using fonts such as the
<a href="FAQ-psfchoice.html"><i>pxfonts</i> and <i>txfonts</i></a>.
+<p/>The <i>pdcmac</i> Plain TeX macro package aims to be a complete
+document preparation environment, like <a href="FAQ-eplain.html">Eplain</a>. One
+of its components is a font selection scheme, <i>pdcfsel</i>, which
+is rather simple but adequately powerful for many uses. The package
+doesn&rsquo;t preload fonts: the user is required to declare the fonts the
+document is going to use, and the package provides commands to select
+fonts as they&rsquo;re needed. The distribution includes a configuration to
+use Adobe &lsquo;standard&rsquo; fonts for typesetting text. (Eplain itself
+seems not to offer a font selection scheme.)
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>ec-plain</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ec-plain.zip">macros/ec-plain</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/ec-plain.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/ec-plain/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>fontch</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/fontch.zip">macros/plain/contrib/fontch</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/fontch.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/fontch/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>font_selection</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/font_selection.zip">macros/plain/contrib/font_selection</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/font_selection.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/font_selection/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>ofs</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/ofs.zip">macros/generic/ofs</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/generic/ofs.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/generic/ofs/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>pdcmac</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac.zip">macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/pdcmac/">browse</a>)
<dt><tt><i>plnfss</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/plain/contrib/plnfss/">macros/plain/contrib/plnfss/</a>
</dl>
-<p><p><p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fonts-pln">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fonts-pln</a>
+<p/><p/><p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fonts-pln">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=fonts-pln</a>
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