Am Montag, 3. Oktober 2005 00:55 schrieb John Jordan: > Tobias mentioned some Type 1 fonts (TIPA) by Rei Fukui > including CTAN which listed a lot of fonts. But CTAN seems to > require an account or password or something.
Hello John, if I go for example to http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/tipa/ and mouse-click on tipa.zip (third line on that page - contains the fonts you want see, including a LaTeX-oriented manual, which can give you a first impression of the fonts) I can download it without password. The package contains fonts in formats suitable only for (La)TeX as well as in type 1 format (the *.pfb ones) which can be used by other applications (for Linux, MacOS, Windows ...) as well. Take the font with the size closest to your intended layout size, then scaling is best, but you don't have to stick to this. Creating a new font from scratch even using a graphical font editor is a lot of work, the more so when it comes to good hinting. In many cases the free solutions already available will suffice, and in most other cases I would rather invest in a commercial solution. Yours sincerely Tobias Hilbricht
