From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 6 20:17:50 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F87516A421 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:17:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B77E813C459 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:17:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.8/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id l96KHmJu011122 for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:17:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Ids: 165 Received: from niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.41]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2DB423723A for ; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:17:46 +0200 (CEST) Received: by niobe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (Postfix, from userid 2005) id CF8C88F; Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:17:46 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 22:17:46 +0200 From: Michel Talon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20071006201746.GA8710@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.165]); Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:17:48 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.7/4485/Sat Oct 6 20:52:57 2007 on shiva.jussieu.fr X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 4707ED6C.001 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Subject: Re: Equations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:17:50 -0000 Frank Jahnke wrote: > I figured this was the case, and it makes a difference. This is OT, but > do you have a link that describe what font families are available? I > assume the Postscript base set is easy. But how about the others? There is an entire fat book devoted to that: Fonts & Encodings by Yannis Haralambous O'Reilly Using any type1 or ttf fonts is very easy as long as no formulas are involved. If formulas have to be typed using a font in harmony with the text, then it becomes quite difficult to produce the necessary virtual fonts. This is certainly a drawback of TeX. By the way, in my academic domain, all scientists worldwide use TeX, and not a single one use Word. One of the reasons is that people publish their work here: http://arxiv.org/ and submissions have to be in TeX and not Word. Similarly journals accept submissions in TeX since they have minor editorial work to do afterwards. Scientists in other domains would be well inspired to do the same. This being said, this question doesn't have much relevance to FreeBSD. -- Michel TALON