[Tuglist] Please help

Radhakrishnan CV tuglist@tug.org.in
Tue, 1 Jan 2002 08:59:50 +0530 (IST)


On Fri, 28 Dec 2001 at 17:05, R. K. Prasad wrote:

   How to typeset the final latex document in Arial fonts? Pl.
   suggest the settings.

What do you mean by settings? Remember LaTeX is not an application,
it is a huge macro package or library of functions, which can be
made use of in your TeX document.

Arial font is not part of TeX system, however, you can get the same
results by simply adding the following lines in the preamble of your
document:

\usepackage{times}
\renewcommand\rmdefault{phv}

Fonts are handled in a different way in TeX and is a non-trivial
task to integrate a given font into a TeX system as far as new user
is concrned.  I can give you bare outline of the process:

1. create tfm files of your font by using ttf2tfm.

2. create type1 versions of ttf font using ttf2pt1.

3. create map files that will map the font files to font names for 
   Arial as per Karl Berry scheme of font naming. If not you cant
   make use of the new font selection scheme macros of LaTeX.

4. copy tfm, pfb files to appropriate directories in the font
   tree of your TeX system. Copy the map to your config folder
   of dvips and include it in your config.ps.

5. create font definition files and appropriate style file to input
   in your TeX documents. copy these files to the relevant folder
   which is read by TeX.

6. Update the TeX database by running texhash or the relevant
   program of your TeX distribution.

If the above stages are correctly done, your font could be seen by 
TeX and used in your documents.

-- 
Radhakrishnan