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From: wi...@secs.ucsc.edu
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Subject: The new font selection scheme
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Date: 17 Jul 91 14:13:09 GMT
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I have the current version of EmTeX from msdos.archive.umich.edu
running with Times-Roman virtual fonts derived from metrics off stanford
system. Something seems to be wrong however with accents, e.g., accute
e prints without the accute accent on the Apple LaserWriter. Suggestions?
I have been hearing about "the new font selection scheme", but came in
at the tail end. What is it and what are its advantages. I presume
what I have is the "old scheme". Where is the "new" scheme described
and where does one obtain it?
[when you flip channels you miss the beginning!]
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From: rai...@quattro.sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: The new font selection scheme
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Date: 29 Jul 91 08:55:00 GMT
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In-Reply-To: wipke@secs.ucsc.edu's message of 17 Jul 91 14:13:09 GMT
In article <17JUL91.14130...@secs.ucsc.edu> wi...@secs.ucsc.edu writes:
I have been hearing about "the new font selection scheme", but came in
at the tail end. What is it and what are its advantages. I presume
what I have is the "old scheme". Where is the "new" scheme described
and where does one obtain it?
The New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS) was developed by Frank Mittelbach
and myself to solve some of the problems and deficencies of the
current way to access fonts in TeX. Though there is at the moment only
an interface to LaTeX, the basic functionality can be used for any TeX
macro package.
I'll mention only the important features that can be seen from the
outside:
A font shape is specified by giving for parameters: family, series,
shape, and size. This is much closer to (traditional) printer's
conventions that the simple typeface/size specification. In
traditional printing, fonts are grouped together in families, e.g.,
computer modern roman.
It is no longer necessary to preload all fonts used in a document. The
minimal version of LaTeX we have requires only five fonts to be
preloaded, and this only since certain parameters derived from these
fonts are used for initialization. If the corresponding parts of LaTeX
were changed one could work without any preloaded fonts.
As a consequence, you may specify different font tables at run time,
you may even painlessly switch between them within the same document.
Because of its superior features, the American Mathematical Society
decided to use the NFSS for their AMS-LaTeX package.
For more information, you should consult our article in TUGboat and
the references therein.
Rainer Sch"opf
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From: dug...@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Including fonts in Latex
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Date: 11 Sep 91 14:26:54 GMT
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Hello,
I have the easy question of the month. How does one include fonts in LATEX?
In particular, I need the times roman font.
Thanks,
John
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From: Scho...@sc.ZIB-Berlin.de (Rainer Schoepf)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Including fonts in Latex
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Date: 12 Sep 91 08:10:02 GMT
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In-Reply-To: duggan@ecs.umass.edu's message of 11 Sep 91 14:26:54 GMT
In article <14696.28ce2...@ecs.umass.edu> dug...@ecs.umass.edu writes:
I have the easy question of the month. How does one include fonts in LATEX?
In particular, I need the times roman font.
Use the New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS), available, for example, from
rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de, in soft/tex/latex-style-supported.
PostScript font support was done by Sebastian Rahtz.
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Rainer Schoepf
Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum ,,Ich mag es nicht, wenn
fuer Informationstechnik Berlin sich die Dinge so frueh
Heilbronner Strasse 10 am Morgen schon so
D-1000 Berlin 31 dynamisch entwickeln!''
Federal Republic of Germany
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