scharein@cs.ubc.ca (Robert Scharein) (03/15/91)
Is there any place that one can FTP the format file required to use
the new font selection scheme? I've read the article in TUGboat v11 #2
describing how to generate it but since I've never used `initex' before
I am a bit uncertain what to do.
Rob Scharein,cnbr17@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (03/18/91)
Hi All, I've recently installed TeX 3.0, LaTeX (with the 14 Jan 1991 versions of lplain.tex and lfonts.tex) and dvips version 5.47 on a small network of SPARCstations. So far, everything is working perfectly :-) However, I've seen some posts in this newsgroup concerning the use of 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 like to be able to use PS fonts in my documents, and this scheme sounds ideal. However, I can't seem to find the appropriate macros anywhere; I've tried labrea.stanford.edu, and can't see anything that looks right. I guess I'm hampered by the fact that I'm not sure what I'm looking for :-] So -- can anyone out there tell me what these macros are, and where I can get them from? Anonymous FTP would be ideal. Thanks for your help Peter. -- ================================================================================ Peter Duffy |JANET: p.duffy@uk.ac.strath.vaxa EEE Dept. |Internet:p.duffy%vaxa.strath.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Strathclyde University|BITNET: p.duffy%vaxa.strath.ac.uk@UKACRL Glasgow G1 1XW |UUCP: p.duffy%vaxa.strath.ac.uk@ukc.uucp Scotland. | ================================================================================
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (03/20/91)
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
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Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)dabg7181@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Butthole Surfers) (03/21/91)
I'm posting this for a friend, so please mail him and not me. ============================================================ I recently installed TeX3.0 and dvips5.47 from labrea on our Suns and NeXTs. I read and thought I understood about the virtual font scheme used for postscript fonts, but when I try using a virtual font, the accents are in the wrong locations. TeX expects to see the character ` in octal position 022, but when I look at a font chart of the virtual font, the character ` lives in octal position 301. It's almost like dvips isn't looking to the .vf file for the new mapping, because when I examine the .vpl file it says that character 022 is mapped to the octal character 301 (which is what it seems it should do, but when I print it out, character 22 is nothing and character 301 is `). I'm confused. The virtual fonts do seem to take care of ligatures ok, but the accents are a problem. This is how I created the virtual fonts. I used the programs afm2tfm and vptovf from TeX3.0 and dvips5.47 at labrea. afm2tfm PalatRom rpalr afm2tfm PalatRom -v psmpalr rpalr vptovf psmpalr.vpl psmpalr.vf psmpalr.tfm and then move psmpalr.tfm, rpalr.tfm, and psmpalr.vf to their respective directories. I use the font psmpalr as the virtual font that TeX sees. What am I missing? Surely everyone else uses the accents ok. right? (I've double and triple checked to make sure that dvips has VFPATH and TFMPATH set correctly) Joe Kaiping Publications Wolfram Research, Inc. (217)-398-0700 kaiping@wri.com