On Mon, Feb 12, 2024 at 2:14 PM Michael Hennebry <
henne...@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:

> Whenever I run latex with anything other than the default font,
> whatever that is, I get a font not found message.
>

> How do I discover what fonts latex can use
> and the names and methods to invoke them?
>

Fedora provides many texlive and generic font packages.  Use <
https://tug.org/FontCatalogue/> to choose
a suitable font.  LaTeX also has support for some common fonts that are
widely available as linux packages.

>
> Search lead me to fc-list, but it did not help.
> It listed a bunch of files,
> none of which were in the latex fonts directory.
> If latex can use them, I know not how.
> Yes, I did find the latex fonts directory,
> but have no idea how to translate the file names into latex.
>
> I want 14 point type, so I'm pretty sure I need a scalable font.
>

LaTeX support for outline fonts is robust.  It has been many years
since I used a bitmap font.  Some high quality outline fonts do
provide multiple sizes for better appearance than you can get
with scalable fonts.

>
> How young does the goat have to be?
>
> --
George N. White III
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