question about psfonts

[Roger Herz Fischler <rhfischl@math.carleton.ca>]

                       Roger Herz-Fischler
            Dept. of Mathematics, Carleton University
                 Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1S 5B6

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To: "tex-fonts@math.utah.edu

After much searching I came about the vast treasure house at

  //web.rge.com/pub/tex/fonts
 
 I am unable to tell either by going up or down in the directories who was
kind to put all these files, but I wish to thank them. I have already down
loaded the long elusive ccr files and have printed a class text from them.

However for a research book [The Shape of the Great Pyramid] I was looking
for something more "traditional" as the editor thought that cm was
too "thin". I then noticed

  /tex/fonts/psfonts/adobe/times

  Unfortunately I do not understand the system of denoting adobe fonts

      eg.     ptmb8c vs ptmb8r vs ptmb8t

              vs
                 

ptmbc8t  etc.

    I looked at:

         /wwwmaths.anu.edu/au/services/fontname
  

     which enabled me to determine that  tm = times and I surmised that
     the prefix "p" stood for postscript, but again it did not help with
the above problem. Is there a site or source where I can find out what the
symbols mean. 

   With many thanks,

    Roger Herz-Fischler