Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!zombie.ncsc.mil!newsgate.duke.edu!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!amber.ora.com!not-for-mail From: norm@ora.com (Norman Walsh) Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.answers,news.answers Subject: comp.fonts FAQ: Diffs from last posting Supersedes: Followup-To: poster Date: 14 Aug 1996 10:35:46 -0400 Organization: O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. Lines: 208 Sender: norm@ruby.ora.com Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Distribution: world Expires: 27 Sep 1996 14:34:08 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: norm@ora.com (Norman Walsh) NNTP-Posting-Host: ruby.ora.com Summary: This posting answers frequently asked questions about fonts. It addresses both general font questions and questions that are specific to a particular platform. X-Web-Homepage: http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/ Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu comp.fonts:48315 comp.answers:20529 news.answers:79250 Archive-name: fonts-faq/diffs Version: 2.1.5 Diffs-from: comp.fonts FAQ v2.1.4 Diff-tool: diff -c2 diff -c2 v2.1.4/font-faq.1 v2.1.5/font-faq.1 *** v2.1.4/font-faq.1 Sat Nov 25 12:49:00 1995 --- v2.1.5/font-faq.1 Wed Aug 14 07:39:04 1996 *************** *** 2,11 **** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The comp.fonts FAQ ! Version 2.1.4. ! November 25, 1995 Compiled by Norman Walsh Copyright (C) 1992-95 by Norman Walsh . The previous ! version was 2.1.3. Portions of the OS/2 section are Copyright (C) 1993 by David J. --- 2,11 ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The comp.fonts FAQ ! Version 2.1.5. ! August 13, 1996 Compiled by Norman Walsh Copyright (C) 1992-95 by Norman Walsh . The previous ! version was 2.1.4. Portions of the OS/2 section are Copyright (C) 1993 by David J. *************** *** 145,162 **** This FAQ is a work in progress. If you have any suggestions, I would be ! delighted to hear them. This FAQ is maintained in TeXinfo format. A Perl script constructs the ! postable FAQ from the TeXinfo sources. TeX DVI, PostScript, Emacs Info, ! plain text, and HTML versions of this FAQ are available from ! jasper.ora.com in /pub/comp.fonts/FAQ. A "Gopher" server is also ! maintained at shsu.edu which can provide interactive access to the FAQ. ! The FAQ is also available from The comp.fonts Home Page on the World ! Wide Web: ! http://jasper.ora.com/comp.fonts ! This is also the site for The Internet Font Archive. The posted version of the FAQ is organized in a quasi-digest format so --- 145,164 ---- This FAQ is a work in progress. If you have any suggestions, I would be ! delighted to hear them. After many months of inactivity, I hope to ! begin a major update on the FAQ. Please send in your comments. And ! thanks for being patient. This FAQ is maintained in TeXinfo format. A Perl script constructs the ! postable FAQ from the TeXinfo sources. The FAQ is also available from ! The comp.fonts Home Page on the World Wide Web: ! http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/ ! This is also the site for The Internet Font Archives. ! TeX DVI, PostScript, Emacs Info, plain text, and HTML versions of this ! FAQ are available from the web at ! http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/FAQ.html. FTP access to these ! archives has been temporarily suspended. The posted version of the FAQ is organized in a quasi-digest format so diff -c2 v2.1.4/font-faq.13 v2.1.5/font-faq.13 *** v2.1.4/font-faq.13 Sat Nov 25 12:49:06 1995 --- v2.1.5/font-faq.13 Wed Aug 14 07:39:07 1996 *************** *** 95,99 **** 3. Also a good place to look for is the following WWW server: ! 1. http://jasper.ora.com/Internet-Font-Archive.html 4. Another good place is the Fresh Fonts I CD-ROM, there you will --- 95,99 ---- 3. Also a good place to look for is the following WWW server: ! 1. http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/ifa 4. Another good place is the Fresh Fonts I CD-ROM, there you will diff -c2 v2.1.4/font-faq.16 v2.1.5/font-faq.16 *** v2.1.4/font-faq.16 Sat Nov 25 12:49:07 1995 --- v2.1.5/font-faq.16 Wed Aug 14 07:39:08 1996 *************** *** 10,15 **** Subject: 11.1. How do I convert AFM files to PFM files ! You can get afm2pfm and pfm2afm files from jasper.ora.com in the ! directory /pub/pfm2afm. Subject: 11.2. PS2PK --- 10,15 ---- Subject: 11.1. How do I convert AFM files to PFM files ! You can get afm2pfm and pfm2afm files from ! http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/FAQ-tools.html. Subject: 11.2. PS2PK *************** *** 304,315 **** If you are using ftp, you will need either the name of the host or the ! Internet number. For example, to connect to jasper, listed as ftp: ! jasper.ora.com [198.112.208.14] you will need to type something like ! ftp jasper.ora.com If that doesn't work, try using the number: ! ftp 198.112.208.14 If that doesn't work, on Unix systems you can use nslookup (it's --- 304,315 ---- If you are using ftp, you will need either the name of the host or the ! Internet number. For example, to connect to ftp.ora.com, listed as ! ftp: ftp.ora.com [198.112.208.11] you will need to type something like ! ftp ftp.ora.com If that doesn't work, try using the number: ! ftp 198.112.208.11 If that doesn't work, on Unix systems you can use nslookup (it's diff -c2 v2.1.4/font-faq.3 v2.1.5/font-faq.3 *** v2.1.4/font-faq.3 Sat Nov 25 12:49:02 1995 --- v2.1.5/font-faq.3 Wed Aug 14 07:39:04 1996 *************** *** 405,410 **** [ed: additional bibliographic information appears in the file ! "Additional-bibliography" on jasper.ora.com:/comp.fonts. I have not ! yet had time to integrate this bibliographic information into the FAQ] Subject: 1.19. Font Encoding Standards --- 405,411 ---- [ed: additional bibliographic information appears in the file ! "Additional-bibliography" on ! http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/FAQ.html. I have not yet had ! time to integrate this bibliographic information into the FAQ] Subject: 1.19. Font Encoding Standards diff -c2 v2.1.4/font-faq.7 v2.1.5/font-faq.7 *** v2.1.4/font-faq.7 Sat Nov 25 12:49:04 1995 --- v2.1.5/font-faq.7 Wed Aug 14 07:39:05 1996 *************** *** 455,460 **** distributed in PC format, however. Again, the font will have to be reencoded for Windows. Appropriate AFM files for this font can ! be obtained from: jasper.ora.com:/pub/norm/comp.fonts. The file ! is called IBM-Courier-PC8-SymbolSet-AFMs.zip. Many of these mac fonts are available in files that are either entitled --- 455,460 ---- distributed in PC format, however. Again, the font will have to be reencoded for Windows. Appropriate AFM files for this font can ! be obtained from: ! http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/FAQ-tools.html. Many of these mac fonts are available in files that are either entitled diff -c2 v2.1.4/font-faq.8 v2.1.5/font-faq.8 *** v2.1.4/font-faq.8 Sat Nov 25 12:49:04 1995 --- v2.1.5/font-faq.8 Wed Aug 14 07:39:06 1996 *************** *** 50,55 **** font will have to be reencoded for Windows. Appropriate AFM files for this font can be obtained from: ! jasper.ora.com:/pub/norm/comp.fonts. The file is called ! IBM-Courier-PC8-SymbolSet-AFMs.zip. Lee Cambell suggests the following alternative: --- 50,54 ---- font will have to be reencoded for Windows. Appropriate AFM files for this font can be obtained from: ! http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/FAQ-tools.html. Lee Cambell suggests the following alternative: *************** *** 262,269 **** REFONT ! refont14.zip in /pub/norm/mac-font-tools on jasper.ora.com BMAP2AFM ! bm2af02.zip in /pub/norm/mac-font-tools on jasper.ora.com XBIN converts Mac "BinHex"ed files back into binary format. BinHex is --- 261,270 ---- REFONT ! refont14.zip from ! http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/FAQ-tools.html BMAP2AFM ! bm2af02.zip from ! http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/FAQ-tools.html XBIN converts Mac "BinHex"ed files back into binary format. BinHex is