Using fonts from the LaTeX Font Catalogue.

[Boris Veytsman]

PT> From: Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at Hellenic-Institute.Uk>
PT> Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 10:31:36 +0100


PT> An interesting question.  As one who never willing uses LaTeX, I started 
PT> by trying the obvious —

[...]
>> 
>> \font \myfont = "BrushScriptX-Italic"
>>


Am I too old-fashioned that for me the obvious is to read the
documentation first?  The documentation recommends pbsi.sty, which
solves the problem.

By the way, for plain TeX users the road is only slightly more bumpy:
t1pbsi.sty inputs pbsi.fd, which has the lines

\DeclareFontShape{T1}{pbsi}{xl}{n}{
   <-> s * [1.2] pbsi8t
}{}

Thus the following should work - and it does!

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\font\myfont=pbsi8t

\myfont The quick brown hippopotamus jumped over the lazy elephant.

\bye
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%



-- 
Good luck

-Boris

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