Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: New font selection scheme... Message-ID: Date: 20 Mar 91 12:51:20 GMT References: <1991Mar18.115223.10504@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 31 In-reply-to: cnbr17@vaxa.strath.ac.uk's message of 18 Mar 91 11:52:23 GMT In article <1991Mar18.115223.10504@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> cnbr17@vaxa.strath.ac.uk writes: PostScript(tm) fonts in LaTeX documents; these suggest the use of a new font selection scheme devised by Mittelbach and Sch\"opf. I guess this must be implemented as a set of macros for TeX and/or LaTeX. I'd really macros for LaTeX So -- can anyone out there tell me what these macros are, and where I can get them from? Anonymous FTP would be ideal. they are a replacement for lfonts.tex, basically, which are a lot easier to extend for new fonts, and which only load fonts on demand. a font family is declared to the system, but actual tfm files are acquired as and when the family/shape/size combination is needed. and theres more than that. excellent stuff. Moral 1: join the TeX Users Group and subscribe to Tugboat, which has had several detailed articles about the scheme Moral 2: look in your own back yard. log into uk.ac.tex (username public, password public) and check out the UK TeX Archive, which has what you want in [tex-archive.latex.styles.fontsel] when you see what you want, fetch it with JANET ftp 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)