Directory macros/latex2e/contrib/fonttable

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The FONTTABLE package

2026-04-19 v1.6e

Issue tracker: https://github.com/LaTeX-Package-Repositories/herries-press/issues/

Licence: LPPL https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

The fonttable package enables you to print a table of the characters in a font (a font table), and/or some example text, and/or individual glyphs in a variety of settings.

This, in a package form, is a poor man's version of nfssfont.tex and testfont.tex.

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Change History

1.6e (2026/04/19) - Avoid global definitions of h 0 1 1.6d (2025/03/12) - Add relax to terminate number issue #51 1.6c (2017/06/06) - Fix bug with fonts with at' in their name1.6b (2011/02/13) - Fix bug with Spanish babel 1.6 (2009/10/15)

• New spacing behaviour of the decimal numbers, courtesy Peter Wilson

1.5d (2009/09/22) - Fix the bug for real, this time 1.5c (2009/09/20) - Bug fix with nodecimals 1.5b (2009/09/02) - New maintainer (Will Robertson) 1.51 (2009/05/14)

• Eliminated a clash with the babel package.
• Described how to avoid a clash with the mftinc package.

1.5 (2009/05/12)

• Added code providing a packaged version of Donald Knuth's testfont.tex, principally as an aid for font designers in testing their font.

1.4 (2009/05/06) - Added a second method for specifying a font. 1.3c (2009/04/30) - Fixed a major bug relating to redefining : 1.2 (2008/05/08) - Minor extensions providing more text examples 1.1 (2006/10/02) - Minor extensions providing more text examples 1.0a (2005/12/06) - Fixed bug preventing multiple unnumbered tables 1.0 (2005/11/27) - First public release

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Author: Peter Wilson (Herries Press) Maintainer: Will Robertson (will dot robertson at latex-project dot org) Copyright 2005–2009 Peter R. Wilson Copyright 2009–2011, 2017 Will Robertson Copyright 2025– LaTeX Project

This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the Latex Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt

This work has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained". The Current Maintainer of this work is LaTeX Project Team.

This work consists of the files:

• README (this file)
  • fonttable.dtx
  • fonttable.ins
  • fonttable.pdf
  and the derived file
  • fonttable.sty

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The distribution consists of the following files:

• README (this file)
• fonttable.dtx
• fonttable.ins
• fonttable.pdf

To install the package:

• To generate fonttable.sty run: tex fonttable.ins
• Move fonttable.sty to a location where LaTeX will find it, for example: /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/latex/fonttable.sty

To manually generate the manual, run:

pdflatex fonttable.dtx
makeindex -s gind.ist fonttable.idx # optional
pdflatex fonttable.dtx

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