Are there free versions of the baskerville font? Or does adobe hold the
universal copyright? What fonts are similar?
The reason I wanted Baskerville is I am tired of Times. The other fonts I'm
familiar with (Helvetica, Palatino, Garamond, etc.) all serve their purpose.
But I think they are a bit childish in an accademic context. What
alternatives would the list recommend?
On Tuesday 04 September 2001 09:13 am, you wrote:
> * Christopher M. Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-09-03 07:33] wrote:
> > I recently wanted to find and install the Baskerville font on my system
> > (I saw it in a book and liked it). After much digging, I found it as part
> > of the psfonts on CTAN. There were two dirs: baskerbe and baskervi. Not
> > knowing the
>
> this are only the metrics in tex format, you need the pfa/pfb files which
> actually contain the font shapes
>
> i think you would have to buy them from adobe
>
> > difference (what is the difference?) I downloaded and installed them
> > both.
> >
> > The install I did was as follows, because I simply don't know any better:
> > the directory I downloaded contained ./tex ./tfm ./vf directories. I
> > coppied the files in each of these directories to what looked like the
> > appropriate place in my tex tree: vf files went in
> > /usr/share/texmf/fonts/vf/adobe/baskerbe and baskervi, tfm files went in
> > /usr/share/texmf/fonts/tfm/adobe/ ... , fd files went into
> > /usr/share/tex/latex/psnfss. I then catted the ???.map files onto my
> > /etc/texmf/dvips/psfonts.map file, did a texconfig rehash, put
> > \usepackage{baskerbe} into my preamble, and viewed the postscript.
> >
> > The font looks positively horrible. None of the characters are spaced
> > correctly, none of them are sized correctly, and the font itself looks
> > nothing like baskerville. What did I do wrong? What do I need to do to
>
> it is not baskerville, it is a replacemnet font from ghostscript
>
> > install these fonts? I've looked at fntguide, but if the answer is there
> > then I don't see it
