Le mardi 13 décembre 2005 à 15:18 -0800, Don Simons a écrit : > To further confuse myself, I searched my MiKTeX texmf directory for > ptmr7t, > finding > only ptmr7t.tfm and ptmr7t.vf. In contrast, a search for cmr10.* > yielded > cmr10.afm, cmr10.tfm, cmr10.pfb, and cmr10.mf.
Some explanations for the different suffixes: afm: Adobe Font Metric indicates the dimensions of each character tfm: TeX Font Metric indicates the dimensions of each character that TeX processes. vf: Virtual Font: a virtual font can change the encoding of a font or mix symbols taken in different fonts into a single font. pfb: PostScript Font Binary contains the PostScript instructions for drawing each character mf: MetaFont format contains meta-instructions that describe the font and each character A PostScript font consists essentially of two files: *.pfb and *.afm. To use it with (La)TeX, you need to convert the afm to tfm and to reencode it (*.vf and *.tfm files associated). The meaning of ptmr7t is p: Adobe (manufacturer of the font) tm: Times (abreviation of the font's name) r: Roman 7t: encoding (here TeX OT1) Fontinst is a very useful TeX macros for converting *.afm to *.tfm or for producing virtual fonts. Olivier _______________________________________________ TeX-music mailing list TeX-music@icking-music-archive.org http://icking-music-archive.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-music
