latex & fonts

[Steven A. DuChene]

	The process of using alternate fonts in LaTeX is very poorly
	documented. I know the NTeX package that comes with most of the
	Linux distributions now installs a bunch of different fonts plus
	LaTeX has the ability to use Postscript fonts. Just don't ask
	how to get it to do that! :-) I have a very done bunch of LaTeX
	command reference pages in HTML format that you might find useful
	and I have purchased or borrowed and read quite a few LaTeX/TeX
	books. However switching fonts in a document to something other
	than the standard computer modern fonts that get used normally
	in LaTeX or TeX is never really laid out too well. If anyone
	knows of some good documents that do lay this out (other than
	those damn expensive MetaFont books by Donald Knuth) please let
	me know. I have the following books already:

	"LaTeX, A Document Preparation System, User's Guide and Reference
	Manual" by Leslie Lamport second edition updated for LaTeX2e
	(Leslie Lamport is the developer of LaTeX so I figured his book
	was a good one to have :-)

	"TeX for the Impatient" by Paul W. Abrahams

	and I have read a third LaTeX book whose title escapes me right
	now but it is a companion piece to the Lamport book.

	BTW, in case your wondering the strange capitalization of LaTeX
	and TeX is the standard way to write out the names of these two
	document formatting packages. If your interested there are a
	couple of macros that let you display the LaTeX and TeX logos
	in a document. Just include the following (without the quotes
	naturally) in a document: "\LaTeX2e" and "\TeX"

	As far as how to view what your installed fonts look like I guess
	the best way is to create a document using one then look at it
	with xdvi! I know it's kind of a catch-22 but this is the way I
	checked out all of the postscript fonts I have installed on my
	system. I have a very simple postscript document that I could go
	into and alter the font name it was referencing. I kept doing this
	then viewing it so I could see what they looked like.
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Steven A. DuChene       Linux Weenie!    http://www.ysu.edu/~sduchene

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