Metafont Guide of Liam Quin Liam Quin's Metafont GuideDate: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:06:33 GMTCONTACTLiam QuinSoftQuad IncToronto, Ontario, CanadaPhone: +1 416 239 4801Web page Summary: .mf files are font outlines that you can use with mf to generate pk or gf format TeX bitmap fonts.Supersedes: Reply-To: lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, CanadaDate: Tue, 24 Jun 1997 22:06:33 GMTApproved: news-answers-request@MIT.EDUExpires: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 02:49:16 GMTLines: 931Xref: news.mcgill.ca comp.text.tex:99991 comp.fonts:58922 comp.answers:26361 news.answers:104046Archive-name: fonts-faq/metafont-listLast-Modified: Mar 20 12:37Summary of Metafont Fonts Available (Approximate Digest Format)This list includes all known fonts available in metafont format, whetherpublic domain or not. Archive sites for ftp are listed where known.There is also a BITNET archive at LISTSERV@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU.Please note that I don't use TeX, and can't answer questions about it.Many of the files are listed as being on a ctan archive.The CTAN servers are ftp.dante.de (129.206.100.192), and ftp.tex.ac.uk (128.232.1.87).These are mirrored at various places, although I don't have a list;README.mirrors in CTAN:/tex-archive is a good source. South African Mirror: ftp.ee.up.ac.za Please tell me (lee@sq.com) about others.There is no North American CTAN archive right now.Robin Fairbairns sent me the following note on behalf of the CTAN team: I suggest you try ftp.cdrom.com instead; the CTAN root there is /pub/tex/ctan; quote site index there doesn't work -- you'll have to use ftp.tex.ac.uk or ftp.dante.de for that. Rest assured that the CTAN team is trying very hard to find an alternative CTAN site in N America.Note on BLACKBOX: The blackbox archive has gone, but ftp.bcc.ac.uk is trying to replace it, so try that machine.Finally, too many people have helped with this list to give individualacknowledgements -- or the file would be twice as large! -- but pleasedo know that people's help is really appreciated.I always welcome additions to this list, although it may take me a whileto add them to the list, I'm afraid. If you don't see your addition aftera couple of months, please feel free to send it again!Subject: Contents About Metafont International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) AMS Irish APL Japanese Arabic Klingon Armenian Korean ASCII Malayam Astrological Malvern Bar Code Mongolian Blackboard Bold Music Calligraphic OCR (Optical Character Recognition) Chess Old English Chinese Oriya Cirth Pandora Committee Pica Computer Modern Pointing Hands Concrete Punk Courier Ransom Croatian Glagolitic Recycle Symbol Cyrillic Romanized Indic Duerer Sanskrit Devanagari Sauter Dingbats Script Euler Soyombo Fraktur Symbol Genealogy Tamil Georgian Telegu Greek Tengwar Hebrew Thai Helvetica Times Hershey Unitary Beginners' Script Hindi Vietnamese Hieroglyphic Waldi Symbol FontSubject: About MetafontMetafont is a programming language for describing fonts. It was writtenby Donald Knuth and is documented in Computers & Typesetting/C: The METAFONTbook Knuth, Donald E. Addison Wesley, 1986 ISBN 0-201-13445-4, or 0-201-13444-6 (soft cover) Library access: Z250.8.M46K58, or 686.2'24, or 85-28675.A font written in Metafont is actually a computer program which, when run,will generate a bitmap (`raster') for a given typeface at a given size,for some particular device.In order to use a metafont format font, you'll need to have metafont, ora program such as mf2ps. See the comp.fonts FAQ for more information.Subject: AMSThe American Mathematical Society collection of Metafont fonts contains:[1] AMS Euler -- a calligraphic font, designed by Herman Zapf for the AMS. It is designed for mathematical use, not as a text face. The fonts are Fraktur, Script, Cursive (an upright italic), Math extension. (see TUGboat Vol.10, No. 1) Most of the Euler fonts use the plain base, not the cm base. You should build these using virmf, or at least with a version of Metafont that does not have cmbase pre-loaded. Any Errors reported when building some of the samller sizes can be ignored. (see also under Euler)[2] AMS extra maths symbols (msam, msbm)[3] AMS computer modern extensions -- providing some of the CM fonts at extra point-sizes.[4] AMS Cyrillic (this is the same as University of Washington Cyrillic)There is also some documentation.You can get them from the AMS directly:ftp: e-math.ams.org /pub/tex/amsfonts/sourcesftp: e-math.ams.org /pub/tex/amsfonts/docAny (infrequent) changes to these fonts happen on e-math first.ftp: CTAN in tex-archive/fonts/amsfontsSubject: APLFonts for the APL (A Programming Language) programming language.These were described in tugboat (Vol 8 No. 3, pp.275-278)ftp: power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu apl-tex-font/27-Jul-90ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/apl/*ftp: power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu apl-tex-font/27-Jul-90Subject: ArabicProf. Klaus Lagally's ArabTeX isa LaTeX extension for high-quality arabic writing.ftp: ftp.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de ftp: ftp.dante.deftp: ctan: pub/archive/language/arabtex/mfinputSubject: Armenianftp: ctan: pub/archive/fonts/armenian/*Subject: ASCIIThe `ascii' font is based on the public domain Courier font donated by IBM tothe X Consortium. This font contains the IBM graphics characters, which arein the first 32 positions, but covers only 7-bit ASCII. It was created byR. Ramasubramanian, R. W. D. Nickalls and M. A. Reed; see TUGboat Vol 15 No. 2.[there doesn't seem to be a .mf file for this, though]ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/ascii/*Subject: AstrologicalSymbols for the planets and the signs of the zodiac.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/astroastrofonts.tar.Z contains several Metafont files from Lars Alexandersson.ftp: hilbert.maths.utas.edu.auSee also Waldi SymbolsSubject: Bar CodeDimitri Vulis's barcode fontftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/barcodes/barcodes.mfSubject: Blackboard BoldUsed for Real Numbers (R), Natural, Complex, etc.ftp: labrea.stanford.edu pub/tex/fonts/bbb*.mfA set of capitals is included in the AMS symbol fonts (see AMS fonts).bbold.mf is Alan Jeffrey's blackboard bold font, and contains bothupper and lower case.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/bbold/*There are serifed Blackbord bold fonts by D. Taupin, containing the fullcm character set inftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/bbmOlaf Kummer wrote anotherBlackboard Bold font, intended to be very close in appearance to theoriginal Computer Modern fonts. The characters have serifs.ftp: ctan: /pub/tex/fonts/doublestroke/*Subject: Calligraphictwcal is a calligraphic font with many ligatures and alternate letter-forms,and includes TeX macros.ftp: ftp.dante.deSubject: Chessftp: ftp.cs.ruu.nl pub/TEX/chess.tar.Zby Piet Tutelaers; described in TUGboat.Some chess typesetting macros were posted to comp.tex.tex on July 31st 1990.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/chess/*There is also a font of pieces for chinese chess frommailto:richer@ERE.UMontreal.CA (Richer Jacques)Subject: ChinesePoor Man's TeX generates Chinese Metafont charactersftp: BLACKBOX (see introduction); cd pub/poorman (??)Poor Man's TeX Chinese has been extended to support Big5 format;pre-generated 300dpi Simplified and Traditional GB fonts are available for ftp.ftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/misc/pmtex-1.1.tar.Zftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/chinese/fonts/pmt-{300dpi,tfm}ChTeX is a set of macros and fonts for typesetting Chinese under TeX.It only supports PostScript, and requires a modivied dvi2ps. You writeyour article with PinYin.Included are source, fonts, VMS binary for 5.2, DOS binary, etc. There isalso support for X-Windows; contact mliesher@nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher).ftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/chinese/{dvi2ps-3.2,ChTeX-1.1}.tar.Zftp neon.stanford.edu ; ChTeX.tar.ZSubject: CirthThis is a Tolkien font based on Anglo-Saxon `Futharc' runes.Julian Bradfield has versions of both Tengwar [q.v.] and Cirth runes.ftp: ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk export/jcb/Elvish.tar.Zftp: (or the individual files instead in the same directory)Janet-niftp: uk.ac.ed.lfcs user=ftp pass=user80 export/jcb/Elvish.tar.Zftp: They are also available for ftp on aston.There is also a cirth font by Jo Jaquinta, Trinity College, Dublin:ftp: lanczos.maths.tcd.ie jaymin/mf/cirthmail: info-serv@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie - send a one-line mail message containingmail: HELP in the text of the message. This may be called "infoserv" now.Subject: CommitteeThis was produced during a workshop tutorial given by Donald Knuth.This is said (by Don Hosek, whom I trust in such things) to be hard-wiredfor the APS typesetter... It is described in Tugboat Vol. 5 No. 2 (Nov. 84).ftp: ctan: tex-archive/committee/*Subject: Computer ModernComputer Modern is Donald Knuth's font family used for his later`Art of Computer Programming' books. It contains cmr -- computer modern roman cmmi -- computer modern maths italic cmti -- computer modern text italic cmb -- computer modern bold cmss -- computer modern sans serif Cmtt -- computer modern typewriter cmvtt -- computer modern variable-spaced typewriterand several variations on each of the above (e.g. bold extended...).There are also some experimental fonts, such as cmff, a `funny' font, andcmfib, a font based on Fibonacci numbers.These are all included in a standard TeX distribution.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/cm/mf/*There is also a very large and probably very complete collection inftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/cm/*If all else fails, you can try:ftp: labrea.stanford.edu cd pub/tex/cmMany TeX ftp archive sites also give access to the bitmaps (pk files),although you usually have to get them all at once.There is also a reparameterised version of CM by John Sauter, which makesit easy to generate fonts at desired sizes-- this is especially useful fornon-TeX users.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/cm/sauter/*See also: SauterThere is also a Pica typewriter font -- italic and bold come out withstraight and wavy underlines (respectively), however. This is inftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/cmpica/*Versions of these fonts suitable for use with an X Windows previewer (xtexand SeeTeX) are available fromftp: UNKNOWN [was foobar.colorado.edu] pub/SeeTeXA variant of CMTT with 8-bit characters for the Mac is available for US$20from yannis.haralambous@omega.citilille.fr -- this is called MACTT.Mf source is included. (Note: the price might be out of date!)Subject: ConcreteThis font was designed for Donald Knuth's Concrete Mathematics book.It looks a little like a cross between American Typewriter and ComputerModern Roman. There are Roman and Italic faces.See Tugboat Vol 10 No. 3, pp. 31-36, "typesetting concrete", by Don. Knuth;an erratum was published in Tugboat Vol 10 No. 3, p. 342.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/concrete/*Subject: CourierSee Fonts: ASCIISubject: Croatian GlagoliticDarko Zubrinic described this in"The Exotic Croatian Glagolitic Alphabet" (TUGboat Vol. 13 No. 4 pp 470--471).See also Fonts: CyrillicSubject: CyrillicThere are several Cyrillic (Russian-Alphabet) fonts: Tom Ridgeway's Cyrillic fonts WN-Cyrillic ifve (which I'm told has better letterforms than WN but only covers Russian)the wncy* fonts are part of the amsfonts package:ftp: e-math.ams.org:/ams/amsfonts/sources/cyrillicftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/ams/amsfonts/sources/cyrillic/*There is a mailing list, rustex-l, for discussion of typesettingCyrilic-based languages. To subscribe, send mail to listserv@ubvm.bitnetcontaining the text SUBSCRIBE RUSTEX-L or mail Dimitri Vulis, dlv@bwalk.dm.comAlexander Harin has put together a set of fonts using the alternativeRussian font encoding, widely used on MS-DOS in Russia. This includes:[1] *.mf and *.tfm files for cmcyr fonts by A.Samarin and N.Glonti (modified);[2] Virtual fonts *.vf by A.Harin which have the standard TeX 7-bit encoding and use the top half of the 8-bit space for the cmcyr fonts in the alternative encoding, and[3] style macros.the fonts:ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/cmcyraltthe LaTeX 2.09 NFSS1 style:ftp: ctan: tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/cmcyraltthe LaTeX 2e style:ftp: ctan: tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/other/cmcyraltSubject: DuererBased on the 16th Century drawings of Albrecht Duerer -- see, for example,his ``The Painter's Manual'' published in Fac Simile by Abaris Books, andreprinted in part by Dover as `On the Just Formation of Letters'. Hoenig's article was in TUGboat Vol 11 No. 14.Upper case letters only.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/duerer/*Subject: Devanagari(this is a font for use with Sanskrit, Hindi, etc.)Created by Frans Velthuis in 1987/88:ftp: ctan: tex-archive/language/devanagari/*Also available as part of his Devanagari transliteration package:ftp: june.cs.washington.edu tex/devnag.tar.Z, or devnag.zipYou could also try, these, although I don't know if they are the same:ftp: BLACKBOX (see introduction):/pub/indic/outlines/vnagari.*Charles Wikner SKT Sanskrit font:This is a complete Sanskrit font with accents, Vedic anusvaara,jihvaamuuliiya etc.; i-hooks connect to consonants correctly. Indic languagesother than Sanskrit are not supported. The skt-series of fonts are writtenin METAFONT and include feint, normal and bold weights, together withslant and upright styles. It uses an ANSI-C pre-processor to convert theencoded input; the same encoding scheme is also used to provide two types oftransliterated output, normal and technical. The font and supporting filesare designed for use with LaTeX2e.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/language/sanskrit/*PostSript documentation is available together with samples:ftp: ftp.nacdh4.nac.ac.za/wikner/sktdoc.ps600.See Also: Fonts: Tamil, Romanized IndicSubject: DingbatsBy Doug Henderson.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/dingbat/*See Also: Washington Symbol FontEberhard Matthes' TeX for MSDOS (emTeX) has an additional font emsy, whichcontains a few (5 or so) Dingbats-type characters (e.g. a lock).Fonts: Ethiopian (Amharic, Geez)There is an Amharic font in Metafont. See TUGboat vol 10(3), p.352;You can find it in /tex-archive/lanaguges/ethiopia/ethtex/disk8.EthTeX is a package that enable users to typeset documents in EthiopianScript and Ge'ez in additon to the standard features.ftp: ftp.shsu.edu; cd tex-archive/languages/ethiopia/ethtexftp.tex.ac.uk; cd tex-archive/languages/ethiopia/ethtexftp.dante.de; cd tex-archive/languages/ethiopia/ethtexSubject: EulerDesigned by Herman Zapf for the American Mathematical Society (the AMS).ftp: e-math.ams.org /pub/tex/amsfonts/sources/eulerSee also: AMSSubject: FrakturYannis Haralambous' Gothic Fonts (described in TUGBoat 12.1) are inthe following directories:ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/yfrakftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/ygothftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/yinitftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/yinitasftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/yswabSee Also: Old EnglishSubject: Genealogy`gen' : genealogy symbols, by Don Knuthftp: CTAN systems/knuth/local/cm/gen10.mf`drgen' : genealogy symbols, by Denis B. Roegel drgen has no original drawings, but gathers in one font the symbols from Knuth's `gen' font, plus some symbols from the `wasy' font (male and female).ftp: CTAN: fonts/genealogySubject: GeorgianAlan Stanier has written what he describes as a `rough version' of themxedruli alphabet, as used in the Georgian Republic.ftp: ftp.tex.ac.uk; pub/archive/fonts/georgianA more plsished version was written by Johannes Heinecke andis in the same directory (?).Subject: GreekBrian Hamilton Kelly's Greek font:ftp: xydeco.siemens.com greek*Sylvio Levy's Greek font:ftp: CTAN tex-archives/fonts/greek/levyftp: CTAN tex-archives/fonts/greek/yannisftp: CTAN tex-archives/fonts/greek/kd(KD is the most comprehensive and is derived from Levy.)Also the Sylvio Levy `gr' greek family, for both Modern and Classical Greek.This includes roman, typewriter and bold, plus TeX macros.Brian Hamilton Kelly's cmgr familyYannis Haramboulos' rgr familyftp: UNKNOWN;James K. Tauber's Greek Metafont `MELANOS'Melanos differs from other Greek Metafonts in that the diacritics are placedafter the letter they apply to, making it easier to use Greek texts based onthe CATSS/CCAT/TLG system of transliteration. CATSS/CCAT/TLG files can bemade compatible with MELANOS by changing "\" to "`" and "|" to "!"This (0.2) is still an early release with a simple mono-width sansserif style.ftp: tartarus.uwa.edu.au; cd /pub/jtauber/melanossee also MalvernSubject: HebrewA number of Hebrew fonts are available, with and without vowels. Thoseinclude the fonts Jerusalem, TelAviv, OldJaffa and DeadSea, Joel M. Hoffman'sHCLASSIC (joel@exc.com), Jacques Goldberg's REDIS, Shalom fonts and more.Some or all of the fonts are available in an 8-bit encoding; the Metafontfiles have names ending in "_newcode.mf". These are:Jerusalem, TelAviv, OldJaffa, DeadSea, redis{8,9,10,12,17}, rediss{8,9,10}.Jerusalem, TelAviv, OldJaffa and DeadSea are the "regular" fonts in mostapplications. Jerusalem is the default; DeadSea is a darker font; TelAviv isa sort of sans-serif font; OldJaffa is a narrow font. REDIS (redis*) contains a full set of Hebrew letters in a "sans-serif"style, and selected punctuation.Hclassic, dclassic, hcaption and dcaption have a companion slanted form, andprovide Biblical-style letters along with full vocalization capabilities(i.e. vowels, called in Hebrew NIKUD). The fonts dclassic and dcaption are amodified version of hclassic and hcaption, in that they contain, apart fromthe original characters and vowels, also digits and special symbols copiedfrom the font DeadSea.Usage is described in the guide classic_guide (available in noa.huji.ac.ilin tex/tex_guides).ShalomScript10, ShalomStick10 and ShalomOldStyle10 are three variations ofa Hebrew font with "vowels". Three fonts + vowels are available:ShalomScript10.mf, ShalomStick10.mf and ShalomOldStyle.mf.Usage is described in Shalom.readme.Carmel and carmel slanted (crml10, crmlsl10) are bold fonts written byDr. Samy Zafrany of the Technion, Haifa, for headers and for emphasized text.All of the Hebrew fonts can be found at the archive for Hebrew TeX files:ftp: noa.huji.ac.il; cd tex/fontsSubject: HelveticaProduced by the Metafoundry and sold commercially.The Metafoundry is no longer extant, and the sources to these and their otherfonts are not available. Email me if you need more information; Rick Tobinis on the net, but the connection is unreliable.Subject: HersheyThe Hershey fonts were designed for use by plotters, and published in 1972.These fonts are of relatively low typographic quality, but are useful ondevices with lower resolution.ftp: cs.uoregon.edu ftp: science.utah.edu There may be a Hershey to MF converter at mims-iris.waterloo.edu calledxhershey. Ken Yap wrote it and `played around with a few novelty fontsbefore deciding the Hershey quality wasn't worth it,' he tells me.Subject: HindiSee Also: Fonts: Devanagari, Sanskrit, TamilSubject: HieroglyphicCreated by Serge Rosmorduc (rosmord@inf.enst.fr).ftp: ftp.tex.ac.uk; directory /tex-archive/fonts/hieroglyphSubject: International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)Used by linguists, and also in some dictionaries. It's designed to gowith Computer Modern. From WSU.The csli version has been extended by Emma Pease (emma@csli.stanford.edu) toinclude hooked D, B and K, and probably more.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/tsipa/doc/*ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/wsuipa/*ftp: cougar.csc.wsu.edu; directory: text1.wsuipaftp: csli.stanford.edu; file: Phonetic.tar.ZThere is a mailing list for linguists who use TeX: ling-tex-request@ifi.uio.noSubject: IrishIvan A Derzhanski's Irish fonts:ftp: ftp.dante.de in /soft/tex/fonts/eiad; read file Leigh_me first.Jo Jaquinta's (half-?) Uncialftp: clr.nmsu.edu in CLR/multiling/gaelic/fonts/half-uncial.tar.gZftp: ftp.cc.utexas.edu in source/tex/fonts/uncialSubject: JapaneseMetafont for 61 Japanese fonts is available from many sources, including:ftp: SIMTEL (tenex) tex/jemtex2.zipftp: wuarchive (binary) file mirrors/msdos/tex/jemtex2.zipftp: utsun (binary) file TeX/jawatex/*Pregenerated Kanji fonts at 300dpi are available --ftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/japanese/fonts/pmt-{tfm,300dpi}/*See Also: Fonts, ChineseSubject: KlingonThis is a font from the television series `Star Trek', metafonted byKhoros sutai-Makpai c/o Karl Guenter Wuenschhz225wu@unidui.uni-duisburg.de(this account is shared with Micaela "Stayka" Pantke,so don't be alarmed if the mailer inserts her address)ftp: ftp.dante.de /pub/soft/tex/fonts/klinz/*Subject: KoreanPoor Man's TeX (see under Fonts: Chinese) has been extended to support Hangul.Pregenerated fonts only are available:ftp: crl.nmsu.edu ; pub/korean/pmtex-korean-fonts.tar.ZSee Also: Fonts, ChineseSubject: MalayamMalayalam-TeX is a package to typeset Malayalam with TeX (*), in both thetraditional and reformed script. There's a free and a commercial version.The demo includes pk fonts at 300dpi, but not the .mf files. The commercialpackage costs DFL 75, which doesn't sound very much.ftp: archive.cs.ruu.nl:/pub/TEX/FONTS/MalayalamTeX-v1.0.tar.ZSubject: MalvernA sans-serif font by P. Damian Cugley (Damian.Cugley@comlab.ox.ac.uk).The latest version is 1.2 (October 1994).This family contains a sans-serif Greek alphabet, usingconventions based on Levy's original Greek fonts and Dryllerakis' GreekTeX.The package includes support files for LaTeX 2e, LaTeX 2.09 and plain TeX.ftp: CTAN: tex-archive/fonts/malvernSubject: MongolianInfosystem Mongolei distributes "Soyombo for LaTeX", together with anintroduction to the Soyombo script still sometimes used in Mongolia.http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~corff/im/Soyombo/overview.Soyombo.htmlSubject: MusicMuTeX is a basic music package for TeX. It seems to be the same as mtex,but with documentation in English rather than (or as well as) German.ftp: stolaf.edu /pub/MuTeX.tar.Z /pub/MuTeX_doc.Zftp: suned.zoo.cs.yale.edu [128.36.21]ftp: cs.ubc.edu src/MuTeX/MuTeX.tar.Z (slow)ftp: wuarchive.wustl.edu: /mirrors/msdos/tex/mutex.arcIn Europe,ftp: ftp.cs.ruu.nl in subdirectory pub/TEXftp: mtex.tar.Z (sources, including metafont sources and documentation)ftp: mtexfonts.tar.Z (300dpi pk files)These are also available in Europe by mail-server. Send mail tomail-server@cs.ruu.nl with HELP in the subject and the body and probablythe .signature as well :-)MUSICTEX is another package with some more fonts, but French documentationftp: 130.84.128.100 username-MUSICTEX password=ANY[I don't think this archive exists anymore..... -- Lee]This may or may not be the same as MusicTeX:ftp: qed.rice.edu pub/musictex.tar.ZSubject: OCR (Optical Character Recognition)OCR A (this is not the font for printing on cheques)ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/ocr-a/*Subject: Old EnglishNote On Terminology: Old English is a language spoken by the Anglo-Saxons in Britain up until the first half or so of the 12th century. It is used to refer to fonts used for setting the Old English language. The term `Old English' is also used to mean the Black Letter fonts used by mediaeval scribes, and called Gothic. Unfortunately, some American typefounding companies use `Gothic' to mean `sans-serif'. Both the Anglo-Saxon character sets and the ornamental Black Letter fonts are listed here.Julian Bradfield's font for typesetting Old English in TeX -- this supplies extra characters for Computer Modern. The extra characters are eth, Eth,Thorn, thorn, yogh, Yogh and Polish ogonek. There are two styles of thorn,but I note that there is no wynn. You may have to create an empty file, orrename a file -- I forget exactly what I had to do. Some of these characterscan also be found in the International Phonetic Alphabet font as well, butJulian's are much more convenient for working with Old English.Yannis' Fraktur fonts include ygoth, which can be used asan Old English Black Letter.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/gothic/ygothSubject: OriyaSabita Panigrahi is working on Oriya (one of the modern Indian scripts),but this is not yet available.Subject: PandoraThis is a little like Palatino, annd includes a sans-serif variant.It is not yet of production quality, unfortunately.ftp: gatekeeper.dec.com; cd tex82/MFcontrib/metafonts/pandoraftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/pandora/*mail: (N. N. Billawa) sun!metamarks!nmmail: (Tom Tatlow) tatlow@dash.enet.dec.com or tom@math.mit.eduSubject: PicaThere is also a Pica typewriter font -- italic and bold come out withstraight and wavy underlines (respectively), however.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/cmpica/*Subject: Pointing HandsVarious manual extremities, designed by Georgia Tobinftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/hands/*Subject: PunkA punK hAndWritten fOnT...For writing on walls, perhaps. The lower case is simply a smallerversion of the upper case. ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/punk/*Subject: RansomThis isn't a Metafont font, but you can get the gf, pk and tfm files at10.300 size from:ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/ransom/*Subject: Recycle Symbolftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/ransom/*Subject: Romanized IndicThe font wnri by Tom Ridgeway can be found onftp.bcc.ac.uk:/public/users/ucgadkw/indologySee Also: Fonts: DevanagariSubject: Sanskrit(see Fonts: Devanagari; Fonts: Romanized Indic)Subject: SauterThis is a rework of Computer Modern by John Sauter. The outlines are thesame, as far as I know, but it is much easier to generate the various fonts.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/cm/sauter/*Subject: ScriptRalph Smith's formal script - rasmith@ucsd.eduSee TeXhax 92 #16.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/rsfs/*Subject: SoyomboSee Mongolian, above.Subject: SymbolThere are varions fonts with special symbols, including:A recycling symbol:ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/recycle/*The stmary symbol font:ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/stmary/*Subject: Tamil(Tamil is an Indian script)An unfinished version of Washington Tamil is available from the Universityof Washington, and is included on their Unix TeX distribution in directory:TeX3.14/MFcontrib/metafonts/washington/tamil together with supporting software.ftp: BLACKBOX (see introduction) pub/wntmlAvinash Chopde's (avinash@acm.org) ITRANS package (a pre-processor for TeX)supports Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit (Devanagari), Tamil, Telugu, Bengali.It includes a PostScript (Type 3) font for Devanagari, and a Metafont Tamilfont (wntml).ftp: Unix: cs.duke.edu in dist/sources/itrans32.tar.Zftp: MS/DOS: oak.oakland.edu pub/msdos/tex/itrans32.zipftp: PostScript printer ready docs are in itransps.tar.Z or itransps.zip.T. Govindaraj (tg@chmsr.gatech.edu) has created a Palladam Tamil font;ftp: isye.gatech.edu nights & weekends onlyBala Swaminathan's Thiruppaavai files are also there.See Also: Devanagari, OriyaSubject: Telegu(Telegu is an Indian script)Andhra Pradesh, Lakshmankumar Mukkavilli and Lakshmi Mukkavilli's TeluguTeXincludes a Telugu font in MF format and also a transliteration scheme for TeX.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/languages/telugu/ftp: ftp.cs.ruu.nl:/pub/TEX/FONTS/TeluguTeX.tar.gzSubject: TengwarThere are at least two Tengwar fonts,Mike Urban's:ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/tengwar/*Julian Bradfield also has both Tengwar and aprototype version of Cirth runes. See Fonts: Cirth for details.Subject: ThaiThere are at least three Thai fonts around. The rmit font is a little trickyto make, as it needs to be in a directory called ``thai2'', because itrefers to files called "../thai2/name". USL makes easily.The third Thai font is by Dr. Robert Batzinger and associates at the UnitedBible Societies in Southeast Asia. I know no more than this.ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/thai/rmit/*ftp: ctan: tex-archive/fonts/thai/usl/*Subject: TimesFormerly produced by the Metafoundry, which is no longer operating.Pk (binary) files may be available commercialy; Georgina Tobin works as aMetafont consultant and has since done more work on Times.See Also: Fonts: HelveticaSubject: Unitary Beginners' ScriptI know very little about this, sorry.ftp: tex-archive/fonts/vaSubject: VietnameseThis test package includes tfm and pk fonts at 10 point roman and italic.I understand that you need TeX 3.0 or later to use this, and drivers thatcope with fonts containing more than 128 characters.ftp: BLACKBOX (see introduction) cd /pub/testvietSince testviet is unavailable, you should probably look at viet-std instead:A large collection of Vietnamese Mf (and PK) fonts is available; these fontsfollow the Viet-Std VISCII 1.1 font encoding specification.ftp: media.mit.edu, directory /pub/Vietnet/Viscii/Tex, filesftp: vncmr.pk.tar.Z and vncmr.mf.tar.Z; the encoding report isftp: under /pub/Vietnet/Viet-std.Subject: Waldi Symbol FontA (compatible) superset of the standard LaTeX symbol font designed by RolandWaldi, at the University of Karlruhe in Germany.ftp: forwiss.uni-passau.de; pub/unix/text/TeX/dhdurz1/wasy.zooftp: ftp.cs.ruu.nl; ATARI-ST/tex/wasy.arc |
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