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 APPENDIX F: TeX FONTS


The standard fonts available for TeX are the Computer Modern (cm) fonts. In addition, you can also specify a subset of the Adobe PostScript fonts within your TeX document. These fonts are fully scalable fonts; they are not interpreted by TeX, but the font information is passed on to the PostScript printers where the actual scaling is processed. Therefore, if you are using the previewing capability of the dotex command available on X Window terminals, comparable cm fonts will be used for the display to give you a general idea of layout; however, the true image can only be obtained by printing the document.

The following table lists the names of the available fonts, along with a description. Note that you can specify any font size. To reference one of these fonts within your TeX document, type the following line into your TeX document:

        \font\name=font_name at npt
For example, to print out the helvetica roman font at a size of 20 points, you would type:
        \font\hr=phvr at 20pt
To use this command, specify \phvr on the command line.

List of Available Fonts

Following is a partial list of the available Adobe fonts for TeX. Please note that these fonts are only approximate, and therefore should be actually tried in TeX to see how they will really look. To find out about additional PostScript fonts and variants you can view a document a fontnames with the following command
xdvi /usr/common/teTeX/texmf/doc/fonts/fontname/fontname.dvi


 

FONT     DESCRIPTION
pbkd     Bookman Demi
pbkdi    Bookman DemiItalic
pbkl     Bookman Light
pbklc    BOOKMAN LIGHT CAPS
pcrb     Courier Bold
pcrbo    Courier Bold Oblique
pcrr     Courier Roman
pcrro    Courier Roman Oblique
phvbo    Helvetica Bold Oblique
phvb     Helvetica Bold
phvbon   Helvetica Bold Oblique Narrow
phvbrn   Helvetica Bold Narrow
phvr     Helvetica Roman
phvrc    HELVETICA ROMAN CAPS
phvro    Helvetica Oblique
phvron   Helvetica Oblique Narrow
phvrm    Helvetica Narrow Roman
pncb     NewCentury Schlbk Bold
pncbi    NewCentury Schlbk Bold Italic
pncr     NewCentury Schlbk Roman
pncrc    NEWCENTURY SCHLBK ROMAN CAPS
pncri    NewCentury Schlbk Italic
pplb     Palatino Bold
pplbi    Palatino Bold Italic
pplbu    Palatino Bold Upright Italic
pplr     Palatino Roman
pplrc    PALATINO ROMAN CAPS
pplri    Palatino Italic
pplro    Palatino Oblique
pplrre   P a l a t i n o  R o m a n  E x t e n d e d
pplrm    Palatino Roman Narrow
pplru    Palatino Upright Italic
ptmb     Times Bold
ptmbi    Times Bold Italic
ptmr     Times Roman
ptmrc    TIMES ROMAN CAPS
ptmri    Times Italic
ptmro    Times Oblique
ptmrre   T i m e s  R o m a n  E x t e n d e d
ptmrm    Times Roman Narrow
pzcmi    Zapf Chancery Medium Italic


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