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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label instfont</title>
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<h3>Installing a new font</h3>
<p/>Fonts are really &#8220;just another package&#8221;, and so should be installed
in the same sort of way as packages.  However, fonts tend to be more
complicated than the average package, and as a result it&#8217;s sometimes
difficult to see the overall structure.
<p/>Font files may appear in any of a large number of different formats;
each format has a different function in a TeX system, and each is
stored in a directory its own sub-tree in the installation&#8217;s
TDS tree; all these sub-trees have the directory
<i>$TEXMF/fonts</i> as their root.  A sequence of answers
 describes the installation of fonts:
follow the list through the &#8220;next question&#8221; links at the bottom of
this answer to view them all.
Other answers discuss specific font families &#8212; for example,

&#8220;<a href="FAQ-concrete.html">using the concrete fonts</a>&#8221;.
<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instfont">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=instfont</a>
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