Font HOWTO

Donovan Rebbechi,

[email protected]

Revision History
Revision v2.0	2002-07-10	Revised by: dr

Provides a comprehensive source to act as a starting point for any and all font questions about Linux.

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

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