April 1994
Intermediate to advanced
522 pages
9h 12m
English
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Chapter 5. Fonts
All of the common TeX macro packages use the Computer Modern fonts by default. In fact, the Computer Modern fonts are so frequently used in TeX documents that some people believe they are the TeX fonts and that no other options are available.
This is not the case. In fact, using different fonts in TeX is quite easy. However, many interrelated font issues can be quite complicated, and it is possible to do things that make your documents print incorrectly (or make them unprintable).
This chapter explores all of the issues related to fonts and how these issues are resolved by a combination of font files, TeX macros, DVI drivers, and careful planning. At a high level, it works like this:
- TeX macros select a font (by assigning \font\fontid=fonttfm). The macros may be very simple or quite complex (as is the case in LaTeX's New Font Selection Scheme).
- TeX loads the metric information from fonttfm.tfm. Many implementations of TeX look for this file in the directories on the TEXFONTS path. TeX cannot process your document if it cannot find the TFM file.[53]
- TeX writes a DVI file. The DVI file contains the name of each font (the name of the TFM file) and the magnification used (magnification is discussed in the section “the section called “What TeX Needs To Know”” later in this chapter).
- The DVI driver attempts to locate font files for each font used at each magnification. Depending on the DVI driver, fonts can come from many places. Many drivers consult a list of built-in ...
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