Filenames for TeX fonts

Filenames for TeX fonts

This is Fontname, a naming scheme for (the base part of) external TeX font filenames. Last update 30 October 2008.

• Introduction: Rationale and basic information about fonts.
• Filenames for fonts: The construction of font names.
• Long names: A specification for long filenames.
• Font name lists: Real fontnames for many existing fonts.
• Encodings: Specifications for various encodings.
• Font legalities: Legal issues vary from country to country.
• General index: Index.

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Introduction

• History
• References

Filenames for fonts

• Suppliers
• Typefaces
• Weights
• Variants
• Widths

Long names

• Name mapping file: Aliases for fonts.
• Long naming scheme: A way to use more than 8 alphanumerics.

Font name lists

• Standard PostScript fonts: The standard 35 PostScript fonts.
• Adobe fonts
• Apple fonts
• Bitstream fonts
• DTC fonts
• ITC fonts
• Linotype fonts
• Monotype fonts
• URW fonts

Encodings

• 8a: Adobe standard.
• 8r: TeX base.
• dvips: Dvips.
• ec: EC (aka Cork, TeX Latin 1, tex256).
• qx: QX, from GUST.
• t5: Vietnamese, from vntex.
• texmext: TeX math extension.
• texmsym: TeX math symbol.
• texmital: TeX math italic.
• texnansi: From Y&Y.
• texnansx: From Y&Y.
• xl2: OT1 + ISO Latin 2 (extended).
• xt2: Typewriter version of xl2.