How to use OTHER FONTS
There are quite a few different fonts availble for LaTeX/Tex; more than
either FrameMaker or EZ. If you're interested, look files ending in ".tfm"
in the directory:
/usr/athena/share/texmf/fonts/tfm
Those are the font metric files that latex uses; if there's a
font-metric file for it, latex can typeset in it (although it may not be
able to print it in all sizes). Currently, there are 315 different
font-metric files.
For example, if you wanted to use the "tengwar" font specified by the
file "tengwar.tfm", you'd have a document like:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\newfont{\elvish}{tengwar}
The One Ring:
{\elvish
Three rings for the elven kings under the sky
Nine for mortal men doomed to die
Seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone
One for the dark lord on his dark throne
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie
One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them
One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.}
\end{document}
The phrase "The One Ring:" would be typeset in normal text, but the
other text would be typeset in the tengwar font, which is for elvish
languages.
There are samples of all the fonts in the directory:
/mit/consult/lib/tex/misc/fonts
The files new1.dvi, new2.dvi, new3.dvi, new4.dvi, new5.dvi, and
new6.dvi are the ones you want to preview; they contain samples of the
fonts. The .tex files that were used to create these are also in the
same directory.
You can view .dvi files in that directory and see what the fonts will
look like when you print them by typing
attach consult
xdvi /mit/consult/lib/tex/misc/fonts/new1.dvi &
and so on for the other files.
If you want to change all the fonts in a document to some postscript
font, you need to add the appropriate documentstyle option, as listed
below.
Font Desired Documentstyle needed
------------ --------------------
Times Roman times *
New Century Schlbk ncs *
Avant Garde avantgarde *
Helvetica helvetica *
Palatino new-pal **
attach sipb
attach texfonts
setenv TEXINPUTS .:/mit/sipb/share/tex/macros:
setenv TEXFONTS .:/usr/athena/share/texmf/fonts:/mit/sipb/share/tex/fonts/tfm:/mit/sipb/share/tex/fonts/vf:/mit/texfonts:/mit/texfonts/ipa:
setenv TEXPKS $TEXFONTS
extend TEXPKS /mit/sipb/share/tex/fonts/pk:
setenv PKFONTS $TEXPKS
You can add these lines to your .environment file if you wish them to take
effect automatically whenever you log in.
The double asterisk indicates the file is in the consult directory. Follow
the same directions as above substituting "sipb" for "consult", i.e.:
attach consult
attach texfonts
setenv TEXINPUTS .:/usr/athena/lib/tex/macros:/mit/consult/lib/tex/macros:
setenv TEXFONTS .:/usr/athena/lib/tex/fonts:/mit/sipb/share/tex/fonts/tfm:/mit/sipb/share/tex/fonts/vf:/mit/texfonts:/mit/texfonts/ipa:
setenv TEXPKS $TEXFONTS
extend TEXPKS /mit/sipb/share/tex/fonts/pk:
setenv PKFONTS $TEXPKS
Of course, you can extend your TEXINPUTS even more to include all three
directories if you wish.
Some characters may be missing from New Century Schoolbook and Palatino.
last updated: 8/8/97
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