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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fonts-pln.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fonts-pln.html deleted file mode 100644 index da8f8a82f2b..00000000000 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-fonts-pln.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,96 +0,0 @@ -<head> -<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’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’s default, the default mechanism is -to use the <code>\</code><code>font</code> primitive: -<blockquote> -<pre> -\font\foo=nonstdfont -... -\foo -Text set using nonstdfont ... -</pre> -</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 -<code>\</code><code>font</code> again: -<blockquote> -<pre> -\font\fooi=nonstdfont-italic -... -\fooi -Text set using nonstdfont italic... -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -<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’t come in versions using Knuth’s -eccentric font encodings — but those encodings are built into -Plain TeX, so that some macros of Plain TeX need to be changed to -use the fonts. LaTeX gets around all these problems by using a -“font selection scheme” — this ‘NFSS’ (‘N’ for -‘new’, as 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 -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’t immediately clear, but which might cause -problems if you’re hoping to use Type 1 versions of the fonts.) -<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’s a compact solution, within its restrictions. -<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 — 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’s OT1. -<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 -encodings, which you select by arcane commands, such as: -<blockquote> -<pre> -\let\LMTone\relax -\input fontch.tex -</pre> -</blockquote><p> -for T1. -<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’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’re needed. The distribution includes a configuration to -use Adobe ‘standard’ 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> -</body> |