Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!jg From: jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: THERE'S NO SCRIPT FONT...WHY NOT! Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 91 14:02:16 GMT References: Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Lines: 49 In-reply-to: sullivan@msor.exeter.ac.uk's message of 20 Feb 91 18:48:46 GMT > I have heard that the AMS uses fonts from > Autologic to obtain a script character set. I would be very grateful > if anyone could send me details re. these autologic fonts I suspect the Autologic fonts in question are native to the AMS' APS5 (ie if you don't have that particular phototypesetter, tough). > ...and any > other commercial fonts suitable for use with TeX. Bitstream Fontware fonts can be converted from their proprietary format using a program COtoPX sold by Personal TeX Inc. These were reviewed in Tugboat V9 N2. Bitstream's library consists about 40 fonts. We have their Times, Baskerville, Goudy and Palatino, and the fonts are very nice. Spacing is not all it could be on a phototypesetter, but at 300dpi it's as good as CM. The only script fonts in the catalogue that leap to the eye are Coronet Bold and Brush Script; you can get these (along with Hobo, Blippo Black, Windsor, Zapf Chancery Med It, Clarendon, Clarendon Bold, and Futura Light, Light Italic, Medium Condensed and Extra Black) as their Flyers Collection, for (I think) about 200 pounds, plus another 150 or so for PTI's package (which comes with either Times or Helvetica). (Oh, I've just seen another script font, Park Avenue.) There are, of course, any number of PostScript scripty fonts which you can use with a PS printer and most good drivers. > Considering the obvious demand for such a script font, it seems a > little strange to enlist the talents of Mittelbach and Zapf... Sorry? Mittelbach isn't a font designer. He *has* codesigned a LaTeX font selection scheme, but that's another matter altogether. And Zapf? You don't *enlist* Zapf, you very humbly ask if you may work with him. :-) And you don't tell him what to design either, I suspect. > 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. But there is, of course, a script font in the AMS collection, designed by Zapf himself. Two, in fact: eusm and eusb (Euler Script Medium and Euler Script Bold). They only have capital letters in, though (and some oddities like curly brackets, for some reason). And of course, there's Neenie Billawalla's calligraphic capitals. Jeremy *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* | Jeremy Gibbons (jg@uk.ac.oxford.prg) Funky Monkey Multimedia Corp | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*