Fonts & Encodings

9.2. Installing Fonts for T_EX

In the previous section, we described font management under T_EX at every level: the user level; the level of T_EX and DVI; and the level of PostScript. At this point, we shall assume that we have purchased, or downloaded from the network, some fonts that we would like to use with T_EX. If they are METAFONT fonts, we need only place them in a location where METAFONT can find them, launch mktexlsr so that the T_EX system knows they are there, and the mktexpf and mktexmf scripts will do everything else; there is nothing more to say on this subject. Therefore, we shall assume that we are dealing with PostScript fonts.

To adapt them for use with T_EX, we have to work at the three levels that we just mentioned:

• At the LAT_EX level, we have to provide one (or more) NFSS font family name(s) to the new fonts and prepare one (or more) FD file(s).

• At the T_EX/DVI level, we have to prepare TFM files for the new fonts, in both their original encoding and an encoding that T_EX can use, such as T1.

• At the PostScript level, we have to prepare virtual fonts that will make the connection between the TFM files in the T_EX encoding and the TFM files in the original encoding. We must also update the configuration file for dvips, possibly with commands for converting between encodings.

Let us be a little more practical. We are starting from the assumption that we have at our disposal some PFB/PFA files (PostScript Type 1) and AFM files (PostScript Type 1 font metrics) files, that ...