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dvips: Font concepts

 
 6.1 Font concepts
 =================
 
 The information needed to typeset using a particular font is contained
 in two files: a "metric file" that contains shape-independent
 information and a "glyph file" that contains the actual shapes of the
 font's characters.  A "virtual font" is an optional additional file that
 can specify special ways to construct the characters.  TeX itself (or
 LaTeX) look only at the metric file, but DVI drivers such as Dvips look
 at all three of these files.
 
    An "encoding file" defines the correspondence between the code
 numbers of the characters in a font and their descriptive names.  Two
 encoding files used together can describe a reencoding that rearranges,
 i.e., renumbers, the characters of a font.
 

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· Metric files                Shape-independent font information.
· Glyph files                 Character shapes.
· Virtual fonts               Constructing one font from others.
· Encodings                   Character codes and character names.
· Bitmap font encodings       Encodings for bitmapped fonts.
· PostScript typesetting      How PostScript typesets a character.
 

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