Font HOWTO

Donovan Rebbechi,

elflord@panix.com

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. The Location of This Document

1.2. Submitting corrections/errata

1.3. Last Updated

1.4. Copyright

1.5. Rationale

1.6. Credits and Acknowledgements

2. Fonts 101 -- A Quick Introduction to Fonts

2.1. Types of Fonts

2.2. Families of Typefaces

3. Fonts 102 -- Typography

3.1. Classifications of Typefaces

3.2. Ligatures, Small caps fonts and expert fonts

3.3. Font Metrics and Shapes

4. Making Fonts Available To X

4.1. The font path

4.2. Installing Type 1 Fonts

4.3. True Type Fonts

4.4. xfs

5. Making Fonts Available To Ghostscript

5.1. Type 1

5.2. True Type

5.3. Using Ghostscript To Preview Fonts

6. True Type to Type 1 Conversion

6.1. Why ?

6.2. How ?

7. WYSIWYG Publishing and Fonts

7.1. Introduction and Overview

7.2. Applixware

7.3. Star Office

7.4. Word Perfect

8. Netscape

9. TeX / LaTeX

9.1. A Quick Primer on LaTeX/TeX fonts

9.2. Adding Type 1 fonts

10. Getting Fonts For Linux

10.1. True Type

10.2. Type 1 Fonts and Metafont

11. Useful Font Software for Linux

12. Ethics and Licensing Issues Related to Type

13. References

13.1. Font Information

13.2. Postscript and Printing Information

14. Glossary