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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label metrics</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>TeX font metric files for PostScript fonts</h3>
-<p/>Reputable font vendors such as Adobe supply metric files for each
-font, in AFM (Adobe Font Metric) form; these can be converted
-to TFM (TeX Font Metric) form. Most modern distributions have
-prebuilt metrics which will be more than enough for many people; but you may
-need to do the conversion yourself if you have special needs or
-acquire a new font. One important question is the <em>encoding</em> of
-(Latin character) fonts; while we all more or less agree about the
-position of about 96 characters in fonts (the basic ASCII set), the
-rest of the (typically) 256 vary. The most obvious problems are with
-floating accents and special characters such as the &lsquo;pounds sterling&rsquo;
-sign. There are three ways of dealing with this: either you change the
-TeX macros which reference the characters (not much fun, and
-error-prone); or you change the encoding of the font (easier than you
-might think); or you use <a href="FAQ-virtualfonts.html">virtual fonts</a> to
-<em>pretend</em> to TeX that the encoding is the same as it is used to.
-LaTeX2e has facilities for dealing with fonts in different
-encodings; read the <a href="FAQ-books.html"><em>LaTeX Companion</em></a> for
-more details. In practice, if you do much non-English (but Latin
-script) typesetting, you are strongly recommended to use the
-<i>fontenc</i> package with option &lsquo;<code>T1</code>&rsquo; to select
-<a href="FAQ-ECfonts.html">&lsquo;Cork&rsquo;</a> encoding.
-A useful alternative is Y&amp;Y&rsquo;s &ldquo;private&rdquo; LY1 encoding,
-which is designed to sit well with &ldquo;Adobe standard&rdquo; encoded fonts.
-Basic support of LY1 is available on CTAN: note that the
-&ldquo;relation with Adobe&rsquo;s encoding&rdquo; means that there are no
-virtual fonts in the LY1 world.
-<p/>Alan Jeffrey&rsquo;s <i>fontinst</i> package is an AFM to
-TFM converter written in TeX; it is used to generate the
-files used by LaTeX2e&rsquo;s PSNFSS package to support use of
-PostScript fonts. It is a sophisticated package, not for the faint-hearted,
-but is powerful enough to cope with most needs. Much of its power
-relies on the use of <a href="FAQ-virtualfonts.html">virtual fonts</a>.
-<p/>For slightly simpler problems, Rokicki&rsquo;s <i>afm2tfm</i>,
-distributed with <i>dvips</i>, is fast and
-efficient; note that the metrics and styles that come with
-<i>dvips</i> are <em>not</em> currently LaTeX2e compatible.
-<p/>For the Macintosh (classic), there is a program called
-<i>EdMetrics</i> which does the job (and more).
-<i>EdMetrics</i> comes with the (commercial)
-<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">Textures</a> distribution, but is itself free
-software, and is available on CTAN.
-
-
-
-
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>dvips</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvips.zip">dviware/dvips</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvips.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dvips/">browse</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>EdMetrics</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/mac/textures/utilities/EdMetrics.sea.hqx">systems/mac/textures/utilities/EdMetrics.sea.hqx</a>
-<dt><tt><i>fontinst</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst.zip">fonts/utilities/fontinst</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/fonts/utilities/fontinst/">browse</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>LY1 support</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1.zip">macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ly1/">browse</a>)
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=metrics">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=metrics</a>
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