larry@Morgan.COM (Larry Rohrs) (05/21/91)
This is probably a frequently asked question, but here goes:
We have postscript printers with lots of nice fonts in them
(doesn't everyone?). We would like to print out our documents in
say, Helvetica-Bold instead of ComputerModern. We can easily
enough add a "\newfont {\xxx}{Helvetica-Bold}" to my LaTeX
document, but when dvi2ps gets hold of the dvi file, it substitutes
some TeX circle font. How do I get Helvetica, or Courier, or
NewCenturySchlbk-Roman to come out at a given point size?
/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts contains the .gf files.
/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pxl contains the .XXXpxl files.
/usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/tfm contains the .tfm files for the
Postscript fonts.
Our fontdesc file is probably misconfigured, but here it is:
#
# Sample C-TeX font configuration file.
#
# N.B.: choose only one of `box' or `blank' TFM fonts.
# current directory always searched first
# TYPE SPEC SLOP PATH
font gf * 3 %f.%mgf
font pxl * 3 %f.%mpxl
font pk * 3 %f.%mpk
# this is not pretty
font blank * 1 i/%f.tfm
font box * 1 %f.tfm
# TYPE SPEC SLOP PATH
font gf * 3 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/%f.%mgf
font pxl * 3 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pxl/%f.%mpxl
font pk * 3 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/pk/%f.%mpk
# SLiTeX invisible fonts can be done with links:
font blank * 1 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/tfm/%f.tfm
font box * 1 /usr/local/lib/tex/fonts/tfm/%f.tfm
Thanks,
Larry