[comp.text.tex] PostScript fonts with SliTeX?

moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) (09/17/90)

Folks -- We have the latest and greatest LaTeX/SliTeX (pre TeX 3.0), dvips,
and psfig, but they do not seem to permit us to use PS fonts with SliTeX. I
suspect that psfonts.sty just needs to be upgraded a little, but haven't a
clue as to what precisely needs to be done. Saying
\documentstyle[times]{slides} to SliTeX doesn't break much (except some math
mode things), but doesn't give Times fonts either. I have a vague recollection
of this having been discussed briefly some time ago, but I don't seem to have
any special files pulled off the news group that address this issue. It would
be especially nice if I could get this going within a couple of days, to
produce slides for an upcoming talk. Thanks in advance for any assistance!

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spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (09/18/90)

In article <MOSS.90Sep16134711@ibis.cs.umass.edu> moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) writes:


   Folks -- We have the latest and greatest LaTeX/SliTeX (pre TeX 3.0), dvips,
   and psfig, but they do not seem to permit us to use PS fonts with
   SliTeX. 

ah, what a bundle of joy awaits you as you explore the intricacies of
the SLiTeX font setup. I tried to do what you wanted, and got bored
(in the simplest case, go in and edit sfonts.tex), until **oh joy** I
started to use Mittelbach and Schoepf's font selection macros
(documented in several Tugboat articles). Now I kick sand in people's
faces, and use a SLiTeX with Optima as the default font, switching to
Heletica, Lucida or whatever as I feel like it. My advice to anyone
interested in changing fonts in LaTeX is to do nothing until they have
acquired M&S (from ymir in the USA, or Aston in the UK, for example),
and set that up. I'll gladly send my suggested splain.tex and
sfonts.tex to extend M&S's files, but with no guarentees

sebastian

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