============================================================ URW Letter Gothic ============================================================ 2005-02-02 w-a-schmidt(at)gmx.net This directory provides a set of general-purpose monospaced Postscript Type1 fonts which URW has made available for free under the Aladdin Free Public License: font name: files: ---------------------------------------- LetterGothic Bold ulgb8a.pfb ulgb8a.pfm ulgb8a.afm LetterGothic Bold Italic ulgbi8a.pfb ulgbi8a.pfm ulgbi8a.afm The original distribution site of the font files is . The fonts are accompanied by the TeX font metrics, virtual fonts, font definition and font mapping files to use them with the LaTeX typesetting system on the PC or Un*x platform. The "regular" cuts of the LetterGothic family, which are also provided at the original distribution site, are not used with TeX, because they appear to be broken. The below installation instructions assume a TDS-compliant TeX system, such as teTeX, MikTeX or VTeX/Free. Yet they may not exactly fit your particular TeX system; please, consult its documentation, too! The directory name "texmf" refers to the root directory of a TDS directory tree. In case your TeX systems has more than one TDS tree, its documentation should tell you where to install additional files. Installing the Type1 font files in your TeX system -------------------------------------------------- The Type1 font files ulgb8a.pfb ulgbi8a.pfb are to be copied to the directory texmf/fonts/type1/urw/lettrgth of your TeX system, and the related .afm files should go into texmf/fonts/afm/urw/lettrgth Most likely, you will have to create these directories first. Feel free to use the fonts also with applications other than TeX! The related PFM files are provided for this purpose; move them to the same directory as the PFBs. Installing the TeX support files from the archive ulg.zip --------------------------------------------------------- Unpack the ZIP archive ulg.zip in the directory "texmf" of your TeX system; thus, all files will be copied to the appropriate directories. Updating the filename database ------------------------------ Many TeX systems require manual updating of a "filename database" after adding of new files. Please, consult the documentation of your TeX system! Configuring your TeX system --------------------------- The required actions depend on the particular TeX system. Particular sets of instructions are provided below for * teTeX 2.0 and later, * VTeX/Free 8.x and later. In case you have a different TeX system, consult its documentation how to make it use the additional font map file named "ulg.map". Two copies of this file reside in the directories texmf/dvips/config/ and texmf/fonts/map/dvips. Configuring teTeX: Use the shell script "updmap" to add the font map file named "ulg.map" to the configuration. See the documentation of your particular teTeX version how to use the script. With teTeX 2.0 and above, execute the following commands: texhash updmap --enable Map ulg.map Configuring VTeX/Free: Make VTeX read the additional font map ("aliasing") file ulg.ali. This is usually accomplished by putting a record for this file into each of the configuration files texmf/vtex/config/pdf.fm and texmf/vtex/config/ps.fm "ulg.ali" is to be added to the TYPE1 section of the above-mentioned files: TYPE1 { ... ulg.ali } Using the URW Letter Gothic fonts with LaTeX -------------------------------------------- See the file lettrgth.txt, which resides in the directory texmf/doc/fonts/urw. Fontinst sources ---------------- The archive file ulgfnst.zip contains the Fontinst script and additional mtx files, that were used to create the font metrics and virtual fonts for URW Letter Gothic. You need not install this material, if you just want to _use_ the fonts with TeX. License ------- Distribution and modification of the the URW Letter Gothic fonts are subject to the Aladdin Free Public License Copyright (c) 2000 by (URW)++ Design & Development The TeX font metrics, virtual fonts and font definition files for URW Letter Gothic i.e., the files in the archive ulg.zip, may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3 of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt and version 1.3 or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2003/12/01 or later. Copyright (c) 2005 Walter Schmidt == finis