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From: arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: need lots of TeX fonts
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.160108.29138@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 16:01:08 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services
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We recently downloaded the TeX distribution front vgr.brl.mil and it
seems to work ok.  Our only problem is that the distribution apparently
doesn't include enough different fonts for our purposes.  Specifically,
this tends to cause the dvi-to-postscript step to choke because it
can't find font such-and-such.  (TeX per se works just fine.)

Is there some site from which we can download every conceivable font that
we might want to use?  We don't know very much at all about the great
inner mysteries of how TeX works, so please excuse the following
Dumb Questions:

(1)  Is a font a font, or do we need certain kinds of fonts, e.g. 
     for a particular system or printer?

(2)  Is there anything special that needs to be done to install the
     fonts, or do we just ftp the fonts and shove 'em in a directory
     that looks like the right place?

(3)  Anything else we should be aware of?

Thanks for your patience, and for whatever help you can give.
________________________________________________________________________
Raymond W. Arritt                     | 
Assistant Professor                   |
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy        |  "People never travel to look 
University of Kansas                  |   at flat landscapes."
Lawrence, KS  66045                   |     - from _Stop Making Sense_ , 
arritt@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu             |       by the Talking Heads        
arritt@walrus.phsx.ukans.edu          |
arritt@ukanvax.bitnet                 |