References

Related files and distributions:

• The TeX Directory Structure (TDS) standard, available from (`ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/tds' and `CTAN:/tds') specifies a directory tree for all TeX library files. The directory names given in section Suppliers and section Typefaces are intended to mesh with that standard.
• The `modes.mf' file (`ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/modes.mf') contains recommended mode names to use as directory names.
• The PSfonts distribution (`CTAN:/fonts/psfonts') contains TeX support for many fonts, both commercially available and free.
• The Fontinst distribution (`CTAN:/fonts/utilities/psfonts') supports quite general creation of virtual fonts, named according to the scheme given here.
• The Dvips translator (original from `ftp://labrea.stanford.edu/pub/dvips*.tar.gz' and variation from `ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/dvipsk.tar.gz') supports resident and downloadable PostScript fonts. Dvips was the first real application of Fontname 1. Dvips also includes Afm2tfm, another program that can create virtual fonts.
• The Dviljk processor (`ftp://ftp.cs.umb.edu/pub/tex/dviljk.tar.gz') contains TeX support for the fonts built into the LaserJet 4.
• `Designing New Typefaces with Metafont', by Richard Southall, Stanford Computer Science Department Technical Report STAN-CS-85-1074, September 1985, for a comprehensive terminology of font design.

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