Frequently Asked Questions About Fonts
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The comp.fonts FAQ
Version 2.1.1.
February 06, 1995
Compiled by Norman Walsh
Copyright (C) 1992, 93 by Norman Walsh <walsh@cs.umass.edu>. The previous version was 2.0.6.
Portions of the OS/2 section are Copyright (C) 1993 by David J. Birnbaum. All rights reserved. Reproduced here by permission.
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This FAQ is a work in progress. If you have any suggestions, I would be delighted to hear them.
This FAQ is maintained in TeXinfo format. A Perl script constructs the postable FAQ from the TeXinfo sources. TeX DVI, PostScript, Emacs Info, plain text, and HTML versions of this FAQ are available from jasper.ora.com in /pub/comp.fonts/FAQ. A ``Gopher'' server is also maintained at shsu.edu which can provide interactive access to the FAQ.
The FAQ is also available from The comp.fonts Home Page on the World Wide Web:
http://jasper.ora.com:8080/comp.fonts.
This is also the site for The Internet Font Archive.
The posted version of the FAQ is organized in a quasi-digest format so that it is easy to find the questions you are interested in. All questions that appear in the table of contents can be found by searching for the word ``Subject:'' followed by the question number.
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