Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: The plethora of Font formats- please please clarify Message-ID: Date: 1 Mar 91 12:02:54 GMT References: Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 36 In-reply-to: jmn@power.berkeley.edu's message of 28 Feb 91 18:28:16 GMT In article jmn@power.berkeley.edu (J. Mark Noworolski) writes: Just off the top of my head I can think of tfm, gf, pk, pxl, and vf (and afm- but I guess that's a printer thing). What are all these? ever used other systems? they have a plethora of fonts too. a good many systems have the equivalent of - printer fonts --> pk - screen fonts --> some other pk - font metrics --> tfm - source for fonts --> mf - source for metrics --> afm TeX isn't particularly bad, except with the printer fonts, and of course Real Men use PostScript anyway, so don't need to bother with all that stuff...:-} Also, there is a set of tfm fonts with TeX3.0 AND a set with dvips547... Which is correct? Are they the same? Can I replace one with the other? they are identical. if they are not you could get odd results! Can I get xdvi to generate the fonts it wants from tfm's? Maybe by using MakeTeXPK (from dvips547). if you set up dvips correctly it generates PK files from .mf sources. TFM contains only metrics. to live life to the full you want to have available - .mf sources for Metafont fonts - .afm font metrics for PostScript fonts - .tfm font metrics compiled for TeX - .pk files for Metafont fonts, compiled for your printer if TeX and dvips cannot locate all of those, you are missing out 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)