[texhax] Fonts for Beginners

[Paul Stanley]

William
you named a number of books which might be interesting and helpful, 
however, none of them are accessible. I am not interested in font 
installation at this stage, I'm merely looking for a text, be it a 
web document, a TeX file,  or an accessible PDF (a bit of a 
contradiction I know) detailing the very basics of fonts, how they 
are structured, designed, the terminology  and so forth,taking 
nothing for granted about the reader's prior knowledge of the subjet matter.
At 16:15 25/07/2012, you wrote:
>On Jul 25, 2012, at 11:07 AM, Paul Stanley wrote:
>
> > sorry William, none of these books are accessible.
>
>Some of them should be:
>
>
> > At 13:00 25/07/2012, you wrote:
> >> On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Paul Stanley wrote:
> >>
> >> > Does the list recommend a text on the subject of fonts for a 
> complete beginner?
> >>
> >> If you mean for installation into old styles of TeX, then Philipp
> >> Lehman's Font Installation Guide:
> >>
> >> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/
>
>http://ctan.gladstone-tech.com/info/Type1fonts/fontinstallationguide/fontinstallationguide.tex
>
>
> >> If you mean using them in a ``modern'' TeX system then Will 
> Robertson's FontSpec:
> >>
> >> http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/xetex/latex/fontspec/
>
>
>http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/fontspec/fontspec.dtx
>
>I'll have to see about doing a version of the Typeface Terminology 
>broadside using TeX.
>
>William
>
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>William Adams
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>Fry Communications
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