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URW Letter Gothic
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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:
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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See the file lettrgth.txt, which resides in the directory
texmf/doc/fonts/urw.
Fontinst sources
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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
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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
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