/u/ftp/pub/tex/dosfonts/index, Mon Apr 10 12:16:35 1995 Edit by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@plot79.math.utah.edu> This directory contains TeX fonts in arc format for PC DOS only. If you want these fonts for VAX VMS, get them instead from ctrsci.math.utah.edu. For TOPS-20 and UNIX, get them from math.utah.edu or science.utah.edu. The 00readme.txt files on each machine give instructions for doing so. Some users have trouble sustaining Internet transfers for large files, so the *.arc files are split into pieces *.arc-nnn. Their sizes (except possibly for the last) are multiples of 512, so as to match disk block sizes on all machines. They must be concatenated in order to get the original file (e.g. on UNIX: cat cm.arc-* >cm.arc). For retrievals to PC DOS, files xx.arc-nnn are linked to names xx-nnn.arc; the contents are identical. PC DOS imposes serious length restrictions on filenames, so different font file naming conventions are used for it than for the other operating systems. The font file contents are identical; in fact, the PC DOS font tree is created by making hard file links to the UNIX font tree, so no significant additional space is required for it. The fonts have all been created with METAFONT's \mode=imagen; they are suitable for 300dpi black-writing laser printers (engines from Canon), such as those from Apple, Hewlett-Packard, and QMS/Imagen. They will be too faint on white-writing printers (engines from Ricoh and Xerox), such as the AST, DEC LN03, Personal Computer Products, and Xerox printers. In major font families, a wide range of magnifications has been prepared, so that negative magsteps of the 300dpi family can also serve for low resolution devices, such as screen previewers and dot matrix printers. For PC DOS, transfer the *.arc files you want, plus UNPACK*.BAT. Put these files in the directory you want to unpack the fonts in, and then type UNPACK to unbundle them. You will need pkunpak to do so. If you have only arc, pkarc, or pkzip, then a simple edit to the *.BAT files will fix them for use with one of those. For example: mkdir c:\tex\fonts ftp ...get *.arc and *.BAT... UNPACK This will create the directory tree c:\tex\fonts\ams c:\tex\fonts\ams\300 ... c:\tex\fonts\ams\896 c:\tex\fonts\cm c:\tex\fonts\cm\83 ... c:\tex\fonts\cm\1075 c:\tex\fonts\concrete c:\tex\fonts\concrete\300 ... c:\tex\fonts\concrete\896 c:\tex\fonts\euler c:\tex\fonts\euler\300 ... c:\tex\fonts\euler\360 c:\tex\fonts\greek c:\tex\fonts\greek\300 c:\tex\fonts\music c:\tex\fonts\music\300 c:\tex\fonts\pandora c:\tex\fonts\pandora\83 ... c:\tex\fonts\pandora\1075 For AMSTeX, LaTeX, SLiTeX, and TeX, you can use them provided you do set TEXFONTS=c:\tex\fonts\cm;c:\tex\fonts\ams If you use fonts from some of the other families, then just add the corresponding directories to the end of the TEXFONTS list. If you want the style files for pandora accessible, do something like set TEXINPUTS=c:\tex\inputs;c:\tex\latex;c:\tex\bibtex;c:\tex\amstex;c:\tex\fonts\pandora ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summary of files available: