From: rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl (Boon van der RJ) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Tex Date: 20 Nov 1997 14:01:56 GMT Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Message-ID: <651fsk$dva$1@star.cs.vu.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: sloep101.cs.vu.nl Lines: 39 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Gurunandan R. Bhat (grbhat AT unigoa DOT ernet DOT in) wrote: >On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Jim Chapman wrote: >> Btw, I would be glad if people who are knowledgeable about TeX fonts >> would recommend what missing fonts are used a lot and should therefore >> be added to the standard distribution. > >I am not knowledgeable but have worked on many tex installations and I >find the djgpp web2c font support perfectly adequate by latex209 >standards. Since LaTeX2e came, the font selection scheme has been updated >(new font selection scheme (nfss)) and our port would do with the addition >of the new encoding files (.enc). Also useful would be the psnfss >distribution and the "35 postscript fonts" distribution. > >I must emphasise that all these can be painlessly downlaoaded from the >CTAN archives which makes the case for bundling a bit weak. I think that the current tex distribution is good enough, but maybe the TeX.readme should emphasize that it doesn't contain all fonts, and should contain a pointer to where (CTAN:/tex-archive/fonts) one could get other fonts. (Most important for newcomers to TeX.) This keeps the distribution size less large, and you can never avoid not having some fonts, if you use someone else's DVI or LaTeX files. I'm no expert either, but I think the bare bones of TeX-fonts are: cm, dc, ec(=jknappen/ec), latex, (equals part of amsfonts), less bare bone: amsfonts, psfonts, even more less bare bone: bbm/bbold (mathematical font for R,N,E,P, etc.), euler, wasy, least bare bone: other fonts I have never heard about. hth, Robert. -- rjvdboon AT cs DOT vu DOT nl | "En dat is niet waar!" sprak Staatsecretaris www.cs.vu.nl/~rjvdboon | Netelenbos (onderwijs) fel.