[TriLUG] More on Plain TeX

[Len Boyle]

In my prior job, I installed TeX on a mainframe, and set up the fonts for the large Xerox printers. 
But it has been a while.

I believe a number of   folks had tools for building font metric files for TeX's use from postscript and other   fonts. 
If you do not already know this site, please vist the following.

The TeX users group is here: http://www.tug.org/

A great jumping off place for everything TeX.  Info, downloads ....

Starting point for fonts:

http://www.tug.org/fonts/


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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Steve Litt
Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 8:33 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org; tech at golug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] More on Plain TeX

Hi everyone,

I just answered one more question about Plain TeX. It's possible to nest styles like I documented in this article:

http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lyx/lyx_latex_tex.htm#_Styles_Macros_Groups_and_Environments

Inability to do this would have stopped me cold.

The other obvious potential stumbling block is fonts. I need to be able to use Century Schoolbook and Liberation Sans and the like, not just stuff like cmbx14. Once I can use real fonts in Plain TeX, I'll be ready to do a proof of concept TeX book.

Thanks,

SteveT

Steve Litt                *  http://www.troubleshooters.com/
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