et99-font-tutorial

Surviving the T X font encoding messEUnderstanding the world of T X fontsEand mastering the basics of fontinstUlrik Vieth Taco HoekwaterEuroT X ’99 HeidelbergEFAMOUS QUOTE:English is useful because it is a mess. Since English is a mess,it maps well onto the problem space, which is also awhich we call reality. Similary, Perl was designed to be a mess,though in the nicests of all possible ways.| LARRY WALLCOROLLARY:T X fonts are mess, as they are a product of reality.ESimilary, fontinst is a mess, not necessarily by design,but because it has to cope with the mess we call reality.ContentsI Overview of T X font technologyEII Installation T X fonts with fontinstEIII Overview of math fontsEuroT X ’99 Heidelberg 24. September 1999 3EI Overview of T X font technologyE What is a font? What is a virtual font? Font file formats and conversion utilities Font attributes and classifications Font selection schemes Font naming Font encodings What’s in a standard font? What’s in an expert font? Font installation considerations Why the need for reencoding? Which raw font encoding to use? What’s needed to set up fonts for use with T X?EEuroT X ’99 Heidelberg 24. September 1999 4EWhat is a font? in technical terms:– fonts have many different representations depending on the point of view– T X typesetter: fonts metrics (TFM) and nothing elseE– DVI driver: virtual fonts (VF), bitmaps fonts(PK), outline fonts (PFA/PFB or TTF)– PostScript: ...