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From: ogawa@orion.arc.nasa.gov (Arthur Ogawa)
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Subject: Re: THERE'S NO SCRIPT FONT...WHY NOT!
Summary: Adobe PS script fonts
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Date: 22 Feb 91 12:39:51 GMT
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In article <SULLIVAN.91Feb20184846@msor0.msor.exeter.ac.uk> sullivan@msor.exeter.ac.uk (Rob Sullivan) writes:
|Fellow TeXers,
|
|	 Following my recent request on the net for information re. a
|script font for use with TeX, I am disappointed to have to report to
|the many people who showed a similar interest that I have met with no
|success whatsoever. I have heard that the AMS uses fonts from
|Autologic to obtain a script character set...

I apologize for not getting off my duff earlier. Here is my contribution:
The following fonts are available from Adobe Systems:

Fraktur: Fette Fraktur (90)
Gothic:  Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch (149)
Script:  Adobe Garamond Expert (alternate italic) (101)
         Kaufmann (63)
         Kuenstler Script (115)
         Linoscript (94)
         Medici Script (110)
         Minion Expert (144)
         Nuptial Script (110)
         Park Avenue (25)
         Shelley (136)
         Snell Roundhand (147)
         ITC Zapf Chancery Medium Italic (3)

|Considering the obvious demand for such a script font, it seems a
|little strange to enlist the talents of Mittelbach and Zapf in the
|design of fonts which although useful, are not in my opinion (and I'm
|by no means alone in this) nearly so essential as a simple script font
|(commonly found on the most basic of wordprocessors). 

As professional typesetters and typesetting consultants, I and my
associates have been engaged for years in closing the gap between
public-domain TeX and the needs and requirements of our author and
publisher clients. We find that commercial font vendors do a great
deal to close said gap.  Our approach is to simply work together with
the designer and the author to make a selection of the most
appropriate font from the available alternatives.  With such a large
number of fonts available even for this rather corner-case
application, and given several other font vendors (for PostScript
devices) with large type libraries, we find that it is generally
possible to achieve satisfaction.

|The claim of TeX
|to be designed specifically for technical typesetting seems severely
|flawed when such a simple task of 'curly' H is beyond its grasp.

At first blush, TeX _is_ well suited to technical typesetting. As 
one delves into real publishing projects, however, inevitable shortfalls
appear. This is only natural, since, in the final analysis, TeX is 
a system made for typesetting Don Knuth's books. The amazing thing is
how well-suited it is to general typesetting, technical typesetting, 
and fine typesetting simultaneously. It is truly a mitzvah, and
is best received as such.