[texhax] how to use lettergothic?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 22 February 2009 Axel E. Retif wrote:

 > On  22 Feb, 2009, at 16:43, D. R. Evans wrote:
 > 
 > > Karl Berry said the following at 02/22/2009 03:08 PM :
 > >>    So could you please explain what
 > >>    the correct algorithm is?
 > >>
 > >> The name used with \font must match (exactly) the .tfm filename.   
 > >> That
 > >> is the only reliable algorithm.  It is fruitless to try to deduce  
 > >> such
 > >> names.
 > >
 > > Oh... I see; I shouldn't have used
 > >  \font\rm=ugmr8r
 > >
 > > I should have used
 > >  \font\rm=ugmr8t
 > >
 > > (although I don't understand what the "r" and "t" signify; but I see  
 > > that
 > > one produces the correct result [i.e., with spaces between words],  
 > > whereas
 > > the other doesn't).
 > 
 > Yes, for me is still a mystery (for example, I seem to remember that I  
 > got in a test better results in TeX using the ``y'' ending tfm font  
 > names for Lucida ---e.g., hlcbt8y, instead of hlcbt8r or hlcbt8t).
 > 
 > But it was really easy to advise you to use `` \font\rm=ulgb8r '' for  
 > lettergothic; I don't have the font, but I downloaded ulg.zip from
 > 
 > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/fonts/urw/lettergothic/
 > 
 > uncompressed it, looked at the ulg.map file and saw these lines
 > 
 > ulgb8r LetterGothic-Bol " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc  
 > <ulgb8a.pfb
 > ulgbi8r LetterGothic-BolIta " TeXBase1Encoding ReEncodeFont " <8r.enc  
 > <ulgbi8a.pfb
 > 
 > So, as said, it was easy ---ulgb8r is the (only?) valid tfm name for  
 > the corresponding Postscript font (*.pfb).
 > 
 > Best,
 > 
 > Axel

There is no problem to use a particular font in LaTeX.

If you insist on plain TeX, you have two choices:

  1.  Re-invent the wheel again.

  2.  Reverse engineer the LaTeX code.

Good Luck,
  Reinhard

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