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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