Re: Freefonts -> LaTeX

[Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Christophe TROESTLER <debian00@tiscalinet.be> wrote:

>Does anybody knows whether there is a package (or any help) to use the
>fonts in the ``freefont'' package with LaTeX.  It seems technically
>possible (they are Type 1 fonts and the .afm's can be found on the
>Web) but bit tedious to do --

Do you know about fontinst's "\latinfamily" command? This will
basically reduce your efforts to renaming the font files and
moving them into the TeX tree, fontinst will take care of the
rest.

>especially considering somebody else probably got the same
>idea... :-)

I'm not so sure about that ;) (You are probably aware of the fact
that these are not quite, um, high quality fonts?)

BTW: Technically, you can use TrueType fonts as well, although
the approach is slightly different from installing and using
Type1 fonts.

-- 
Philipp Lehman <lehman@gmx.net>