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-<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&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
-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&rsquo;t come in versions using Knuth&rsquo;s
-eccentric font encodings &mdash; 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
-&ldquo;font selection scheme&rdquo; &mdash; this &lsquo;NFSS&rsquo; (&lsquo;N&rsquo; for
-&lsquo;new&rsquo;, 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&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:
-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
-<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;
-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&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>
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