On 29 April 2016 at 02:11, Paul Birkel <pbir...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://miktex.org/pkg/az > > Wow, is that some list. In my era it was a *lot* shorter, by orders of > magnitude. The list does include these: > > miktex-metafont-base METAFONT base > miktex-metafont-bin-2.9 METAFFONT binaries > miktex-metafont-misc METAFONT misc > > (and: logic A font for electronic logic design) > > (and what's not to like about: comicsans Use Microsoft Comic Sans font) > Instead of using that package list, I prefer to just browse CTAN directly: <https://www.ctan.org/> Since that's ultimately where MikTeX downloads packags from. Also, CTAN includes the package documentation (if it has any), which is handy when using some of them. ("Halp, how can use pgfplots?" "Have you tried reading the manual?" "THERE'S A MANUAL!?")
About the comicsans package: It's <current year>, use xeTeX/xeLaTeX or LuaTeX/LuaLaTeX and fontspec to use Comic Sans directly from the TTF file. An aside on Comic Sans: Even though it's a pretty bad typeface, it is apparently really readable by those with dyslexia. There's still better typefaces for that kind of application. Regards, Christian -- Christian M. Gauger-Cosgrove STCKON08DS0 Contact information available upon request.
