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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label amfonts</title>
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<h3>Where are the <code>am</code> fonts?</h3>
<p>One <em>still</em> occasionally comes across a request for the <i>am</i>
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)
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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 <i>cm</i> 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 <i>am</i> font should be replaced by its corresponding
<i>cm</i> font, the output should be almost correct.
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<p><p><p><p><p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=amfonts">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=amfonts</a>
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