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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Bob Tennent wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">I regret that I've disappointed *you* but I'm sure that Rolf
will understand the general point that one uses an arbitrary
font selected from the LaTeX Font Catalogue by clicking
on the name of the font and following the instructions
presented on the font-specific page. Usually those will
involve using a package that provides the infrastructure
required by *LaTeX* processors. I suggest you prepare a
*TeX* Font Catalogue that provides comparable instructions
for users like yourself who avoid LaTeX.
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I think that you (perhaps intentionally) miss my point, Bob, which
has <i>nothing</i> to do with my loathing of LaTeX. The situation
is directly analogous to the well-known apophthegm "Give a man a
fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed
him for life". In the present example, use of BrushScriptX-Italic
requires a dedicated package, "pbsi". I have no idea how many
fonts are listed in the LaTeX font catalogue, but if each and every
one of them requires a dedicated package, then therein lies
madness. What is required is not a a link to a <i>package</i> but
rather a link to the description of how one can use an arbitrary
font supplied only as an AFM/PFA pair — document that, and you feed
a LaTeX font catalogue user for life. Document only a package
dedicated to one single font, and you feed him for only a day.<br>
-- <br>
<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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