Rich Shepard wrote: > It seems a very common misconception. Too many people use the word 'font' > when they refer to 'typeface.' A 'font' is a particular typeface > (Palatino, Amerigo, Bookman), shape (Roman, Slant, Italic), weight > (normal, bold, thin), and size (10pt, 11pt, 12pt). That's why you'll see > so many entries in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ with the same family name.
Depends. Actually, a font is a kind of "economic" entity. It's a collection of shapes and sizes (or a specific shape) of a given type face, as it is sold by the type _foundry_ (e.g. Linotype or Adobe). Historically, a font (or found, for traditionalists) was indeed a set of metal types, distributed and sold as an entity. Nowadays, a font is a file which contains information about glyphs, metrics etc. for a subset (or the whole) of a typeface. So, strictly speaking, font is just the material "container", the thing you install on your computer. What you select in the application are type faces, shapes, sizes etc. Jürgen
