Last updates:
Thu Apr 22 14:32:48 2004
Fri Nov 12 15:24:22 2004
Mon Dec 13 17:27:57 2004
Thu Mar 23 14:22:34 2017
Here is an overview of the information that I've put together on the subject of fonts:
Implementors of TrueType font software in the TeX world, and at the FreeType Project, have turned up many deficiencies, errors, and omissions in the TrueType specifications. It is claimed that a Microsoft document http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OTSPEC/otff.htm#otttables describes all TrueType/OpenType table entries. There are also IBM OS/2 extensions described at http://www.microsoft.com/typography/OTSPEC/os2.htm
character widths for 4874 fonts
STIX Font Project
The mission of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange
(STIX) font project is ``the preparation of a comprehensive set
of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in
the process from manuscript creation through final publication,
both in electronic and print formats. Toward this purpose, the
STIX fonts will be made available, under royalty-free license, to
anyone, including publishers, software developers, scientists,
students, and the general public.'' From the progress meter at
the STIX Web site, a total of 7817 glyphs are to be created, and
just over 60% of the work was complete in early November 2002.
Standard Type Services Framework
This is a collaborative open source project to produce a new
API for text and font handling in the UNIX environment.
Unix Font Rendering FAQ
This document answers frequently asked questions about
bitmap fonts and X11 font rendering.
This version has quite a number of problems, but they are now fixed: I have made a 500-line patch file (150 lines of documentation and 350 lines of diff listings) that can be applied with patch -p0 to the ttfdump-0.5.5 distribution to allow problem-free GNU-standard installation on at least a dozen major UNIX implementations from all of the major UNIX vendors. Because some Web clients corrupt whitespace in transferred files, which destroys the patch file, it is also available in uuencoded form.
index of 20,627+ font names from 30 vendors;
use this when you know the name of a font, and want to find out how,
or where, to get it; see also the next two items.
myfonts.com
font lookup service
URW++
font lookup service
TeX User Group fontinst home page;
it includes archives of the tex-fonts and
fontinst mailing lists.