[texhax] Fonts for Beginners

[William Adams]

On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Paul Stanley wrote:

> sorry William, none of these books are accessible.

Some of them should be:


> At 13:00 25/07/2012, you wrote:
>> On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Paul Stanley wrote:
>> 
>> > Does the list recommend a text on the subject of fonts for a complete beginner?
>> 
>> If you mean for installation into old styles of TeX, then Philipp
>> Lehman's Font Installation Guide:
>> 
>> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/

http://ctan.gladstone-tech.com/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/fontinstallationguide.tex


>> If you mean using them in a ``modern'' TeX system then Will Robertson's FontSpec:
>> 
>> http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/


http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec/fontspec.dtx

I'll have to see about doing a version of the Typeface Terminology broadside using TeX.

William

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