Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!pasteur!power.Berkeley.EDU!jmn From: jmn@power.berkeley.edu (J. Mark Noworolski) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: The plethora of Font formats- please please clarify Message-ID: Date: 28 Feb 91 18:28:16 GMT Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Lines: 25 I have just recently installed tex3.0 and am now trying to install dvips547 as well as xdvi. Something that has always puzzled me about LaTeX, TeX is the huge array of fonts that are around!!! 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? Why so many? 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? Can I get xdvi to generate the fonts it wants from tfm's? Maybe by using MakeTeXPK (from dvips547). In a nutshell I'm trying to comprehend what each type of font is for, and what the simplest configuration would be. Can somebody summarize? (I've never seen any of these answered here, and my confusion remains. Maybe this should go on FAQ? I'll collect replies and post a summary in any case). -- "There's a really fine line between clever and stupid" Nigel- Lead Guitar (Spinal Tap) jmn@united.berkeley.edu, or jmn@power.berkeley.edu