% This file is part of the NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme) package. % ------------------------------------------------------------------ \def\filedate{91/11/27} Copyright (C) 1989,1990,1991 by Frank Mittelbach, Rainer Schoepf. All rights reserved. IMPORTANT NOTICE: You are not allowed to change this readme file. For distribution of changed or unchanged versions see readme.mz. Please do not request updates directly from us. This is a preliminary release of the new font selection scheme and its interface to LaTeX 2.09. Please excuse the terseness of the documentation. 1) Basic macros for setting up a new format file: basefont.tex File used during generation of format. See nfss.tex. fontdef.max File containing font/shape definitions for standard TeX fonts as well as nonstandard fonts like the AMS symbol fonts, etc. You need a TeX with a large value for the pool size to use this file. fontdef.ori File containing font/shape definitions for the standard TeX fonts which are needed to set up a LaTeX format compatible with the old font selection. lfonts.new File that should be used instead of the old lfonts.tex to set up a new LaTeX format. See nfss.tex. preload.min File that preloads the absolute minimum of fonts. May be used during initex run. preload.med File that preloads those fonts which are otherwise loaded by LaTeXs \documentstyle command if 10pt size is requested. If you normally use 11pt or 12pt as a style option you shouldn't use this file but make a similar one. May be used during initex run. preload.ori File that preloads more or less the same fonts as the old lfonts.tex. May be used during initex run. 2) Sub styles for the new font selection scheme: euscript.sty Style to set up a math alphabet identifier to access the Euler script fonts. margid.sty Makes math alphabet identifiers behave like commands with one argument, i.e. use \cal{A} as syntax. newlfont.sty Switches to new font selection if oldlfont is default. See article. nomargid.sty Makes math alphabet identifiers behave like font switches, i.e. use {\cal A} as syntax. oldlfont.sty Switches to old font selection if newlfont is default. See article. syntonly.sty Defines \syntaxonly command which can then be used in the preample to suppress output (TeX will run \approx 4 times faster). plf_tracefnt.sty Defines \tracingfonts integer. This is used to trace font switches etc. Setting \tracingfonts to in the preamble means: 1 Warnings are turned into error messages to show you the exact location of the problem. 2 Additionally, loading of external fonts are shown. 3 Additionally, switching of text fonts is traced. You will see a lot of information if you set \tacingfonts this high. 3) Example files and documentation: array.sty The extension of the array and tabular environment as described in tugboat 9#3. This file is without documentation and not necessarily up to date. It is provided only to run nfss.tex. If you have a newer version of array.sty use it instead. concrete.doc Unfinished style option which should serve as an example of how to use a style file to make new fonts known to the new font selection scheme. This file is subject to changes!! concrete.sty Stripped down version of concrete.doc without comments. nfss.bug This file contains a list of known problems, solved and unsolved. nfss.tex Article published in TUGboat 11#1 about the LaTeX interface to the new font selection scheme. You will not be able to run it successfully through LaTeX unless you happen to have a new format and the Concrete and Euler Math Fonts available. Note that due to a misunderstanding 2 pages of the article are missing in TUGboat 11#1. Therefore the whole article is reprinted in TUGboat 11#2. Unfortunately this version got a few errors reinserted which had been corrected for the first printing (that's life). nfssinst.tex The part of nfss.tex (with some extensions) that describes the generation of a new format. It is processable by the old LaTeX. nfssprob.tex User problem reports, during installation and/or use of the NFSS (New Font Selection Scheme). Usually with solutions. We only maintain and distribute this file. If you have a problem (and hopefully a solution to it) and you think this could be of interest to others, please send us your contribution as an update to this file. We then distribute it in the next release. readme.mz File that describes distribution restrictions and gives a short overview about other distributions from Mainz. readme.mz3 This file. 4) Changes not covered in the article nfss.tex: The files fam.tex, latinit.tex and setsize.tex have been removed and their contents merged directly into lfonts.new. basefnt.tex was renamed to basefont.tex. \family, \series, \shape and \size have been renamed to \fontfamily, \fontseries, fontshape and \fontsize. The old names are still supported. Nevertheless, please use the new names in new applications. 5) Generation of a new format (see also nfssinst.tex): 5.1) Copy all files to a directory where TeX can find them. 5.2) Rename the standard lfonts.tex to something like lfonts.old. 5.3) Start IniTeX using lplain. 5.3.1) Use lfonts.new as a substitute for lfonts.tex 5.3.2) Use fontdef.ori as a substitute for fontdef.tex 5.3.3) Use preload.ori as a substitute for preload.tex 5.3.3) Use oldlfont.sty as a substitute for xxxlfont.sty 5.4) Say \dump at the end of the run. This should generate a new format which behaves exactly like the old one, except, of course, that styles and files which use internals of the old lfonts.tex (like \xpt or \tenrm) won't work without changes. This format should enable you to process nfss.tex in a way that it looks like the original article. However, we added some additional code to the document so that it is also processable without making a new format. This document will tell you more about the font selection scheme and how it can be customized to the needs of your installation. If you have the concrete fonts you should uncomment the following two lines: * The line in the \documentstyle command where the concrete style is loaded * The line following directly after the \begin{document}, namely % \fontfamily{ccr}\fontsize{10}{13pt}\selectfont You should also comment out this one \fontfamily{cmss}\fontsize{10}{13pt}\selectfont The unchanged document will produce the article using Computer Modern sans serif fonts. Please don't change the file in other respects. If you have problems running it, make a copy and change the copy. I'm sorry that the preamble of this file contains so many definitions but I didn't find the time so far to clean things up. It a real life document with all editor changes,author remarks, etc. Last remark: you will need ltugboat.sty and tugboat.com. They are distributed together with multicol.doc and doc.sty in the multicol package. If you don't have these files it is still possible to produce the documentation: comment out the ltugboat option and scroll the errors that will follow. Of course, some things will be missing or look different. Good luck! The \fileversion and \filedate lines below are generated so that you can easily check differences from your version by using GREP or DIFF etc. Don't be surprised when some files show several version numbers. 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