Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: PostScript fonts with SliTeX? Message-ID: Date: 18 Sep 90 10:03:39 GMT References: Sender: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 25 In-reply-to: moss@cs.umass.edu's message of 16 Sep 90 17:47:11 GMT In article moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) writes: Folks -- We have the latest and greatest LaTeX/SliTeX (pre TeX 3.0), dvips, and psfig, but they do not seem to permit us to use PS fonts with SliTeX. ah, what a bundle of joy awaits you as you explore the intricacies of the SLiTeX font setup. I tried to do what you wanted, and got bored (in the simplest case, go in and edit sfonts.tex), until **oh joy** I started to use Mittelbach and Schoepf's font selection macros (documented in several Tugboat articles). Now I kick sand in people's faces, and use a SLiTeX with Optima as the default font, switching to Heletica, Lucida or whatever as I feel like it. My advice to anyone interested in changing fonts in LaTeX is to do nothing until they have acquired M&S (from ymir in the USA, or Aston in the UK, for example), and set that up. I'll gladly send my suggested splain.tex and sfonts.tex to extend M&S's files, but with no guarentees sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)