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On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Mark Wagnon wrote:
C. J. Kenneth Tan wrote:
What do you mean by installation of fonts and packages?
I'm not really sure :) I've seen hundreds of fonts on CTAN that can be downloaded, but I am unsure what to do with the files once I have them...where do they go, how to use them in a document, that kind of thing.
Never bothered to use fonts that are not in the standard package out of ftp.tug.org because I need my documents to be really portable among more than a dozen machines. But I do use style files and class files.
I will not recommend installing specific fonts on your machine and packages in the default locations. This is because when you try to take your files to another machine and try to compile it there, you'll face problems -- fonts and packages are not there anymore.
You're right. To use non-default files defeats the purpose of using such a portable system. However, I'm not likely to send a manusript to a publisher or write my thesis any time soon. I was just curious to play with the fonts. Much like when True Type fonts came out and there was a sudden rash of "ransom notes".
Yes, the book mentioned below is a really good book. It walks you through a lot of the steps. The edition that I have is not for LaTeX2e but for LaTeX 2.0.9.
I remember seeing this book at a local bookstore now. I think I'll take a look at it. One other thing, do you know anything about the TeX Book by Donald Knuth? I've seen it aroung but it seems pricey.
Thanks a bunch,
Mark
Use the TeX Book if you want to create style files, or want to do certain things that LaTeX does not yet have im its long list of features, or if you want to get some specific kind of effects. (But getting a specific effect in one source file again defeats the whole point of using LaTeX.) I have never had the need to use it myself. Regards, C. J. Tan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Tan E-mail: cjtan@acm.org Telephone: 1-403-220-8038 tanc@cuug.ab.ca 1-403-606-4257 URL: <A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc"><A HREF="http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc</A">http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~tanc Facsimile: 1-403-284-1980 "An engineer made programmer is one who attempts to solve a problem, A programmer made engineer is one who knows how to solve a problem." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
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