Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-24 Thread Paul
Karsten Heymann wrote: >> Also, the italic chapter names in the header at the top of every page >> (memoir document class) were coming out as an embedded >> NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 font for some reason. All other italic >> text was just using a standard Times-Italic non-embedded font. > > Nim

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-23 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi, Paul schrieb: Also, the italic chapter names in the header at the top of every page (memoir document class) were coming out as an embedded NimbusRomNo9L-Regu-Slant_167 font for some reason. All other italic text was just using a standard Times-Italic non-embedded font. Nimbus Roman is th

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-23 Thread Stephen Harris
- Original Message - From: "Johan Ingvast" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Karsten Heymann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 7:16 AM Subject: Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX Karsten Heyman

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-23 Thread Johan Ingvast
Karsten Heymann wrote: Is there a way to see which fonts are available to LaTeX? Try thils link: http://tug.org/TeXnik/mainFAQ.cgi?file=fonts/fonts It shows ways of displaying all fonts found on the latex paths. /johan

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-23 Thread Karsten Heymann
Hi Paul, Paul schrieb: I'm trying to understand exactly how LaTeX handles fonts/typefaces. Maybe you want to take http://www.tug.org/fonts/ as a starting point. An extremely good read is the fonts chapter from book "The LaTeX Companion" 2nd. Ed. Is there a way to see which fonts are availabl

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Johan Ingvast
Paul A. Rubin wrote: Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is up

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: You said about sticking to basic PDF fonts, but I would have thought that it would be the other way round - unusual fonts would be *more* portable because they are actually embedded within the document. I'm not sure that's necessarily true. I think it is up to the software prod

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
Stefano Franchi wrote: > If you are willing to spend a few hours (well, more than a few) with > Ph. Lehmannn's FontInstallation Guide, you'll be able to install any > Postscript Type 1 font you may desire. It consists of a series of > tutorials for Fontinst. On the other hand, if portability i

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Stefano Franchi
On Oct 21, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Paul wrote: Angus Leeming wrote: http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as "standard". A standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts (

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 21 Oct 2005, Paul wrote: Most of my potential readership is going to be using Adobe Acrobat on Windows I imagine. So if I use Times, will that be treated as different from Times New Roman and cause problems for Windows users, or will it silently substitute the font (possibly causing slig

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul wrote: > Angus Leeming wrote: >> http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm >> explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as "standard". A >> standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these >> fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. > > OK so does that mean

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Paul
Angus Leeming wrote: > http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pdf/six.htm > explains that the PDF standard defines 14 fonts as "standard". A > standard-conforming reader will be able to display glyphs in these > fonts even if they are not embedded in the document. OK so does that mean those fonts (Times, Hel

Re: Choice of fonts in LaTeX

2005-10-21 Thread Angus Leeming
Paul wrote: > What I need to be sure is that users on different machines running > Windows or Mac, with different fonts installed, will still be able > to read the PDF document. For example, if they don't have Times or > New Century Schoolbook installed, will they still be able to view > them? Does