jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) (11/08/90)
I have been charged with the responsibility of investigating other typefaces for use with TeX and LaTeX. One suggestion, from TUGBoat volume 9 number 2, is the combination of Bitstream Fontware fonts and Personal TeX Inc's Font Interface Package. Fontware fonts are outline fonts, with some extra `rules' to ensure even stem weights and so on. PTI's FIP is an MS-DOS program to convert these `smart outlines' into the .pk bitmaps and .tfm metrics that TeX uses. The combination gets a very good write up in the TUGBoat article. I have a couple of queries. Firstly, does anyone have any experience of Bitstream Fontware fonts at 300dpi? Their glossy brochure is, of course, run off on a proper typesetter, but we can't afford that. More generally, I suppose, how comprehensive will the Bitstream fonts be? Do they (or can they) have slanted as well as italic variants? Small caps (no, I don't mean caps in a smaller size)? Secondly, has anyone tried using the PTI package? Does it work? Is it easy to turn the handle and get .pk's and .tfm's out? Any advice would be highly appreciated. Jeremy *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* | Jeremy.Gibbons@prg.oxford.ac.uk Programming Research Group | | 11 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*