Fonts and symbols

• METAFONT:
  • METAFONT for Beginners (Geoffrey Tobin)
  • The METAFONT book (TeX source) (Donald E. Knuth)
  • How to Create Your Own Symbols in METAFONT and for use in LaTeX Documents (Richard Lin)
  • Milieu -- METAFONT and Linux: A Personal Computing Milieu (Thomas Dunbar)
  • Simple drawings with METAFONT (Zdenek Wagner)
  • Some METAFONT Techniques (article from TUGboat, 10 pages) (Yannis Haralambous)
  • List of all available Metafont fonts (text version)
  • Liam Quin's Metafont Guide (last version)
  • MetaFog: Converting METAFONT Shapes to Contours (Richard J. Kinch)
  • METAFONT source
  • Design of a new font family (slides) (Gerd Neugebauer) (1996) (in German and English)
  • PERL Module for reading .tfm files (Jan Pazdziora) (1997)
• fig2mf (UNIX manual) (Anthony Starks)
• bm2font (Friedhelm Sowa)

• Mathematics (ps) (Paul Taylor)
• Greek characters, binary operators, ... (ps)
• Genealogical symbols (drgen font) (Denis Roegel) (20 april 1996)
• wasysym (Axel Kielhorn) (Nov 1997) (style giving access to the symbols included in the wasy fonts)
• Fonts for chess
• The Marvosym Font Package (Martin Vogels Symbole) (contains the euro symbol, and other symbols)
• Eurosymbol, another font for the euro symbol (example)
• Free Adobe fonts for the Euro
• Eurosans (package to use the Adobe Euro fonts in LaTeX). Sample use (dvi) (ps)
• Everything about the Euro. Includes the official specification for the Euro symbol

• Cyrillic
  • LH Cyrillic Fonts (in Russian). English version.
  • The OT2 encoding (Matthias Ellert) (8 March 1996)
  • Description of font encodings T2A, T2B, T2C et X2
  • Description of input encodings (cp866, koi8, etc.)
  • The Encoding Paradigm in LATEX2e and the Projected X2 Encoding for Cyrillic Texts (Cahiers GUTenberg 28-29, 1998, pages 17-31) (A. Berdnikov, O. Lapko, M. Kolodin, A. Janishevsky and A. Burykin)
  • Alphabets Necessary for Various Cyrillic Writing Systems (Towards X2 and T2 Encodings) (Cahiers GUTenberg 28-29, 1998, pages 32-43) (A. Berdnikov, O. Lapko, M. Kolodin, A. Janishevsky and A. Burykin)
  • Some Problems with Accents in TEX: Letters with Multiple Accents and Accents Varying for Uppercase/Lowercase Letters (Cahiers GUTenberg 28-29, 1998, pages 44-55) (A.S. Berdnikov and O.A. Grineva)
  • Karel Piska's web page
• CTeX User's Guide for Unix (Zhong-jian Teng) (26 october 1994) (Chinese TeX)
• CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)
  • documentation of the LaTeX package (Werner Lemberg)
  • standard CJK
• Japanese fonts
• Greek: « It's all GreekTeX to me: An updated summary of all available TeX and LaTeX tools » (Ioannis Dimakos) (1996)
• The 2820 Cambodian consonantic complexes from Alain Daniel's Cambodian-French dictionary (Yannis Haralambous, 22 april 1996)
• Typesetting Khmer (Yannis Haralambous) (1995)
• Devanagari for TeX, version 1.2, User Manual (Frank J. Velthuis, May 1991, 8 pages)
• Malayalam-TeX v1.1 User's Guide (22 January 1994)
• Sanskrit for LaTeX2e (Charles Wikner)
• Gurmukhi for TeX -- User Manual Version 1.0 (Amarjit Singh) (October 1995)
• Gurmukhi: The Sikh Alphabet
• Sabra, a Syriac TeX system (21 pages) (Yannis Haralambous)
• Typesetting the Holy Bible in Hebrew, with TeX (article from TUGboat -- 18 pages) (Yannis Haralambous)
• A LaTeXperiment of hieroglyphic typesetting (Serge Rosmorduc) (25 May 1995).
See also the author's site on Ancien Egypt and its hieroglyphs.
• The TeXtib system for writing Tibetan (S.W. Sirlin) (July 1996)
• MonTeX: Mongolian support for LaTeX
• Soyombo alphabet (Mongolia) (Oliver Corff) (1996)
• Fonts for Africa: the fc fonts (1993) (Jörg Knappen) (TUGboat 14/2 article)
• A berber TeX system (Yannis Haralambous, 1996)

• Technical Report on Math Font Encoding (Justin Ziegler) (332212 bytes, 93 pages, uses AMS and DC fonts)
• Math Font Group (Joint LaTeX3 Project / TUG Technical Working Group on Extended Math Font Encodings)
• Example of mathematical typesetting (contributed by Thierry Bouche)
• My humble additions to (La)TeX mathematics (Yannis Haralambous) (January 4, 1996)
• About the diversity of mathematical fonts (Thierry Bouche) (1996) (in French)
• Towards a new Math Font Encoding for (La)TeX (Cahiers GUTenberg 28-29, 1998, pages 94-121) (Matthias Clasen and Ulrik Vieth)
• Archives of the math-font-discuss list
• Ulrik Vieth's archives (TeX's Future)
• MathTime a font extending Times for typesetting mathematics in TeX
• MathTime Plus a font extending MathTime even further
• TM-Math font family, another font family extending Times for typesetting mathematics in TeX
• HV-math font family, a sans-serif font extending Helevetica for typesetting mathematics in TeX
• mathpple, a virtual font extending Palatino for typesettign mathematics in TeX
• Arrows and harpoons font (Taco Hoekwater) (work in progress) (1998)

• Samples of ``Metafont'' fonts (Marcus J. Ertl)
• List of ``Metafont'' fonts (Vincent Zoonekynd)
• Comment utiliser des fontes sous LaTeX ? (Vincent Zoonekynd) (in French) (PS file compressed with bzip2)
• Samples of ``Bitstream'' fonts (pages prepared by Thierry Bouche)
• Samples of ``standard'' printing industry fonts (pages prepared by Thierry Bouche)

• PSNFSS
  • adobe (load certain non-standard Adobe PostScript fonts)
  • lucid and lucmath
  • charter
  • lucidabr (Lucida Bright, Lucida Sans, Lucida Fax, etc.)
  • mathtime (Math Time fonts)
  • nimbus (Nimbus fonts)
  • psfonts
  • utopia
• AMS fonts (ps)
• Mathematical Symbols and Cyrillic Fonts ready for distribution (Barbara Beeton) (obsolete article) (ps)
• bbold (ps) (Alan Jeffrey)
• beton (ps) (Frank Jensen)
• bm (bold math symbols)
• ccfonts (concrete fonts) (Walter Schmidt) (1997/04/01)
• euler (ps) (Frank Jensen)
• Halftone
  • Halftone Output from TeX (TUGboat article) (Adrian F. Clark)
  • Halftone Output from TeX (Adrian F. Clark)
• IPA (ps)
• oldgerm (ps) (Frank Mittelbach). See also Typesetting Old German (Yannis Haralambous) (ps)
• pandora (ps)
• stmaryrd (ps) (Jeremy Gibbons & Alan Jeffrey)
• textcomp (Text Companion) (Jörg Knappen) (1995) (List of commands in the `textcomp' package and corresponding symbols) (ps)
• twcal (Calligraphic font). See also twcal14 (Thomas Weinmann) (in German).
• wasysym (ps) (Axel Kielhorn)

• The Birth of a Virtual Font: The AdjKerns Utility (Yannis Haralambous)
• Virtual fonts in a production environment (Michael Doob & Craig Platt)
• vftovp (virtual font -> virtual property list) (Donald E. Knuth)
• vptovf (virtual property list -> virtual font) (Donald E. Knuth)
• The VFinst virtual font installer (version 0.93) (Alan Hoenig) (April 1997)

• The abridged MALVERN handbook (P. Damian Cugley) (31 pages)
• Typesetting Greek using Malvern fonts (P. Damian Cugley) (4 pages)
• Malvern WWW page (P. Damian Cugley)

• Typesetting the Cyrillic Alphabet with Omega: Basic Ideas (Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice) (August 26, 1994)
• OmegaTimes and OmegaHelvetica Fonts Under Development: Step One (Yannis Haralambous, John Plaice) (11 june 1996) (paper to be presented at TUG96)
• omlgc font (Omega Latin Greek Cyrillic) (draft) (13 march 1997) (Yannis Haralambous)
• Multilingual Typesetting with Omega, a Case Study: Arabic. Paper presented at "Multilingual Information Processing II", Tsukuba, 1997 (in PDF format, 158kb)

• Fontinst (Alan Jeffrey)
• GNU Font utilities (Karl Berry and Kathryn A. Hargreaves) (contains among other tools `Limn', to convert a bitmap font to an outline font). See also this link.
• TIPA: a System for Processing Phonetic Symbols in LaTeX (Fukui Rei) (June 24, 1996)
• TFMPK - TeX's .tfm+.pk Font Viewer (Yotam Medini) (1997)
• TTFtoGF
• TTF2MF
• Tools for Macintosh fonts

• Organization of DC fonts (T1 encoding)
• The European Computer Modern Fonts (Jörg Knappen) (1 sep 1995) (ps)
• The release 1.2 of the dc-fonts (1995) (Jörg Knappen) (TUGboat article)
• The dc fonts 1.3: Move towards stability and completeness (1996) (Jörg Knappen) (TUGboat article)

• Adobe technical notes
• The characters in the Symbol PostScript font
• The characters in the Zapf Dingbats PostScript font
• 75 Computer Modern Postscript fonts released for public use.
• Incorporating PostScript fonts in TeX (Erik-Jan Vens)
• Using fonts from the Adobe Type Library with LY1 encoding in (La)TeX

• Essential NFSS2 (Sebastian Rahtz)
• Generating an APL Font (Aarno Hohti & Okko Kanerva) (article from TUGboat 8(3), november 1987)
• Belleek: TeX Virtual T1-Encoded Fonts for Windows TrueType (Richard J. Kinch) (15 March 1995)
• Problems of the conversion of METAFONT fonts to PostScript Type 1 (Basil K. Malyshev) (1995)
• TeXtrace, tools that convert any TeX font into a Type1 .pfb outline (Péter Szabó, 2001)
• VFlib -- a General Font Library that Supports Multiple Font Formats (Cahiers GUTenberg 28-29, 1998, pages 211-222) (Hirotsugu Kakugawa)
• Fontname (Filenames for TeX fonts) (version 2.0, August 1995) (Karl Berry)
• ASCII tables (Victor Eijkhout) (ps)
• ISO character entities and their LaTeX equivalents (PS)

• List of words that TeX fails to hyphenate properly

• LaTeX2e font selection (dvi)
• Les fontes sous LaTeX pour les nuls (et les autres) (Vincent Zoonekynd) (in French)
• (La)TeX font guide (David Wright)
• TeX and LaTeX Fonts (Tom Scavo)
• Internet Font Archive
• List of all available METAFONT fonts
• The Font Family FuBl (Futura Black) (Gerd Neugebauer) (1996)
• Unicode
• Notes on Fonts (Nelson H. F. Beebe)
• 3000fonts