Which font is this? Is there an equivalnet for use in plain TeX?

Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com
Tue Dec 29 20:34:12 CET 2020


Hello Philip,

On 2020-12-29 18:16, Philip Taylor wrote:
> Heiko Oberdiek via texhax wrote:
> 
>> Font setup in plain TeX is no fun, one of the reasons not to use it.
> 
> [...]
> I even wrote my own font-handling library,
 > [...]

Yes, more than plain TeX is needed for a comfortable font handling.
(Of course, this is fun for a programmer loving programming in plain 
TeX, but not for an unexperienced end user that just needs to write
a document, possibly with a deadline.)

Yours sincerely
   Heiko


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