Where are the am
fonts?
One still occasionally comes across a request for the am
series of fonts. The initials stood for ‘Almost [Computer] Modern’,
and they were the predecessors of the Computer Modern fonts that we
all know and love (or hate)
.
There’s not a lot one can do with these
fonts; they are (as their name implies) almost (but not quite) the
same as the cm series; if you’re faced with a document that requests
them, all you can reasonably do is to edit the document. The
appearance of DVI files that request them is sufficiently rare that
no-one has undertaken the mammoth task of creating a translation of
them by means of virtual fonts; however, most drivers let you have a
configuration file in which you can specify font substitutions. If you
specify that every am font should be replaced by its corresponding
cm font, the output should be almost correct.
This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=amfonts