Font HOWTO

Donovan Rebbechi, elflord@panix.com

1. Introduction

• 1.1 The Location of This Document
• 1.2 Rationale
• 1.3 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 Type1 Fonts
• 4.3 True Type Fonts
• 4.4 xfs

5. Making Fonts Available To Ghostscript

• 5.1 Type1
• 5.2 True Type
• 5.3 Using Ghostscript To Preview Fonts

6. True Type to Type1 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. TeX / LaTeX

• 8.1 A Quick Primer on LaTeX/TeX fonts
• 8.2 Adding Type1 fonts

9. Getting Fonts For Linux

• 9.1 True Type
• 9.2 Type 1 Fonts and Metafont

10. Useful Font Software for Linux

11. Ethics and Licensing Issues Related to Type

12. References

• 12.1 Font Information
• 12.2 Postscript and Printing Information

13. Glossary