Directory macros/latex/required/psnfss
------------------------------------------------------------ PSNFSS 9.3 -- installation instructions ------------------------------------------------------------ 2020-03-25 Walter Schmidt Contents -------- - Overview - Removing obsolete files - Installing the virtual fonts, metrics and .fd files - Installing the PSNFSS macro packages - Installing the documentation - Fonts required for PSNFSS - Font map files - The encoding vector 8r.enc - Extra packages required for PSNFSS - Making sure that everything works - Files from PSNFSS v7.x, which are no longer part of the distribution. Overview -------- PSNFSS, originally developed by Sebastian Rahtz, is a set of LaTeX2e package files to use common PostScript text and symbol fonts, together with packages for typesetting math using virtual math fonts to match Times and Palatino. The macro packages are useless without the font description (fd) files, virtual fonts (vf) and font metric (tfm) files for the font families used. On CTAN, those for the Base 35 fonts are provided in the archive lw35nfss.zip. The metrics, fd's and font map files for the free Utopia, Charter, FPL and Pazo fonts are provided in the archive file freenfss.zip. The PSNFSS collection does, however, NOT include the actual PostScript fonts, i.e., the .pfb and .afm files. See the below section "Fonts required for PSNFSS" . This document describes how to _install_ or _update_ PSNFSS. Detailed instructions how to _use_ PSNFSS with LaTeX can be found in the PDF document psnfss2e.pdf. Removing obsolete files ----------------------- * If your current version of PSNFSS is 7.0 or older, you should remove manually _all_ macro files, .fd files, font metrics and virtual fonts, that have to do with the PSNFSS system or with the Base35, Utopia, Charter or Pazo fonts. * If your current version of PSNFSS is 8.x or 9.1, delete the files ot1fplmbb.fd and t1fplmbb.fd. In a TDS-compliant TeX system, they should reside in the directory texmf/tex/latex/psnfss. * Previous distributions of PSNFSS 9.0x would erroneously comprise a number of files named *8a.tfm in the directory texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/palatino. These files did not do any harm, yet they are useless and should be deleted -- unless you are using VTeX, which does require them. Installing the virtual fonts, metrics and .fd files --------------------------------------------------- Obtain the archive files lw35nfss.zip and freenfss.zip from CTAN:macros/latex/required/psnfss. If the file system layout of your TeX system complies with TDS, unzip them in the texmf root directory (usually named texmf) of your TeX system; all files will be unpacked into the right directories then. Otherwise you have to sort out manually the files from the .zip archives and copy them to the appropriate directories of your TeX system. The archives do _not_ include TFM files for the "raw" (= not re-encoded) PostScript text fonts. These files are required by VTeX only (and they are not PSNFSS-specific, anyway). Installing the PSNFSS macro packages ------------------------------------ Copy the files 00readme.txt changes.txt manifest.txt mathtest.tex pitest.tex psfonts.dtx psfonts.ins psnfss2e.tex test0.tex test1.tex test2.tex test3.tex to a directory where you keep documented LaTeX sources. In a TDS-compliant system this should be the directory texmf/source/latex/psnfss/ . Run LaTeX on the installation script psfonts.ins to create the package (.sty) files. Move them to a directory where LaTeX will find them. In a TDS-compliant system this should be the directory texmf/tex/latex/psnfss/ . The latter step is executed automagically by the installation script, provided that your DocStrip program has been configured appropriately and the target directory exists already. Installing the documentation ---------------------------- Copy the documentation file psnfss2e.pdf to a suitable directory; in a TDS-compliant system this should be texmf/doc/latex/psnfss . Fonts required for PSNFSS ------------------------- The "Base 35" fonts Free substitutes for the commercial PostScript Base fonts are available from the CTAN directory fonts/urw/base35. Adobe Utopia Bitstream Charter The Type1 font files can be obtained for free from various sources, e.g., CTAN:fonts/utopia and CTAN:fonts/charter. | The Utopia fonts are no longer a "required" component of | the LaTeX system, because of their license conditions. | Yet YOU MUST NOT OMIT the related font metrics and map | file records, regardless of whether or not the Type1 font | files are actually installed. Thus, the user will be | able to add the fonts without any further changes; | besides, other packages or virtual fonts may rely on | these TFMs. FPL (=Palatino SC/OsF) Free substitutes for the commercial Palatino SC/OsF fonts are available from CTAN:fonts/fpl Pazo The Type1 fonts can be obtained from the CTAN directory fonts/mathpazo. Notice that PSNFSS 9 needs version 1.003 (2002-05-17) of the Pazo fonts. Computer Modern RSFS (Ralph Smith's Formal Script) Euler Math These font families are required when typesetting math using the packages mathptm, mathptmx, mathpple, or mathpazo. They are available in Type1 as well as METAFONT format Make sure to install at least the Type1 variants, possibly beside .mf. Font map files -------------- The following font map files (in a format that suits dvips and pdfTeX) are provided in the PSNFSS distribution. Use them immediately or merge them into one common map file: psnfss.map: for the Base35 fonts, eurmo10 and eurbo10 charter.map: for Bitstream Charter utopia.map: for Adobe Utopia pazo.map for the Pazo math fonts fpls.map for the free substitutes (FPL) of the Palatino SC/OsF fonts psnfss.map is primarily destined for use with dvips. The entries for the fonts "eurmo10" and "eurbo10" may need to be customized: Feel free to change the /FontName's (EURM10 and EURB10) to lower case, if you have got the Type1 fonts from MicroPress rather than the BlueSky collection. This particular change is _not_ regarded as a violation of the license conditions. psnfss.map does _not_ make dvips embed the Base35 fonts. For use with pdfTeX you will, most likely, have to create a modified copy, which specifies embedding of all Base fonts. The other map files are equally suitable for use with either dvips or pdfTeX. Other applications, such as VTeX, need a different format of the font map files. They may also require entries for the raw (= not reencoded) fonts. When creating these map files, take those for dvips/pdfTeX as a model! The encoding vector 8r.enc -------------------------- Most Type1 text fonts, when used from TeX, are reencoded to the so-called TeXBase1 encoding, in order to make all glyphs accessible. This is performed using the reencoding file 8r.enc which distributed with PSNFSS. Consult the documentation of your TeX system, where to store this file! | | PSNFSS 9.x includes version 2.0 of 8r.enc. Make sure | that there exist no other, obsolete, instances of 8r.enc | in the applicable search path of your TeX system | Extra packages required for PSNFSS ---------------------------------- The "Graphics" bundle must be installed, since PSNFSS makes use of the package keyval.sty. Making sure that everything works --------------------------------- Run the test following files through LaTeX: test0.tex test1.tex test2.tex test3.tex mathtest.tex pitest.tex Files from PSNFSS v7.x, which are no longer part of the distribution ------------------------------------------------------- The files to support the commercial Lucida Bright and MathTime fonts are now distributed from the CTAN directories macros/latex/contrib/psnfssx/ and fonts/metrics/bh/lucida/. -- finis
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psnfss – Font support for common PostScript fonts
Font definition files, macros and font metrics for freely-available Adobe Type 1 fonts. The font set consists of the ‘LaserWriter 35’ set (originally ‘freely available’ because embedded in PostScript printers), and a variety of other free fonts, together with some additions. Note that while many of the fonts are available in PostScript (and other) printers, most publishers require fonts embedded in documents, which requires that you have the fonts in your TeX system. Fortunately, there are free versions of the fonts from URW (available in the URW base5 bundle).
The base set of text fonts covered by PSNFSS are: AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, Symbol, Times Roman and Zapf Dingbats. In addition, the fonts Bitstream Charter and Adobe Utopia are covered (those fonts were contributed to the Public Domain by their commercial foundries).
Separate packages are provided to load each font for use as main text font. The packages helvet (which allows Helvetica to be loaded with its size scaled to something more nearly appropriate for its use as a Sans-Serif font to match Times) and pifont (which provides the means to select single glyphs from symbol fonts) are tailored to special requirements of their fonts.
Mathematics are covered by the mathptmx package, which constructs passable mathematics from a combination of Times Roman, Symbol and some glyphs from Computer Modern, and by Pazo Math (optionally extended with the fpl small-caps and old-style figures fonts) which uses Palatino as base font, with the mathpazo fonts.
The bundle as a whole is part of the LaTeX ‘required’ set of packages.
Package | psnfss |
Version | 9.3 |
Licenses | The LaTeX Project Public License |
Copyright | 1995–2020 Sebastian Rahtz, Walter Schmidt |
Maintainer | Keiran Harcombe The LaTeX Project Team Sebastian Rahtz (deceased) Walter A. Schmidt (deceased) |
Contained in | TeX Live as psnfss MiKTeX as psnfss |
Topics | Font use Font support |
See also | psnfssx |