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Fonts Included in the t1lib-Package

Included in the t1lib-package are 8 fonts of two families which are freely available.
  1. The CharterBT-fonts in Roman, Italic, Bold and BoldItalic variants. These are good quality fonts containing kerning information. Notable kerning pairs are ``T''-``e'', ``A''-``V'' and ``A''-``T''.
  2. The ComputerModern-fonts by Donald E. Knuth in the variants Roman, Italic, BoldExtended and BoldExtendedItalic. In addition to kerning information, there are many ligatures in these fonts. Most people will know about the present ligatures from using TEX, the typesetting system. Notable examples are: -- ``-'', --- ``--'', fi ``fi'' and ffi ``ffi''. These fonts have the disadvantage that no ordinary space character is included, only a visible space. TEX itself does not need a dedicated space character.
Note that working with ligatures requires the ligatures to be encoded at the positions they are expected. Thus, if you reencode one of the dc-fonts with the IsoLatin1-encoding funny effects may occur.



2005-01-12