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Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 20, 2006 18:54 UTC (Fri) by b7j0c (subscriber, #27559)
Parent article: Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

an aside - i would love to be able to use the "computer modern"-like font
as a normal font in terminals, my web browser, etc. does anyone know of a
ttf equivalent? thanks!

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Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 20, 2006 21:16 UTC (Fri) by joib (guest, #8541) [Link]

AFAIK latin modern (lmodern) is available in opentype format.

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 20, 2006 21:26 UTC (Fri) by hanwen (subscriber, #4329) [Link]

Try running a CM font through mftrace, http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanwen/mftrace/

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 21, 2006 0:04 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

There are already good-quality type1 computer modern fonts in e.g. teTeX,
and X can use them. (I've got my X set up to use them and am browsing LWN
in computer modern at this instant :) )

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 20, 2006 21:33 UTC (Fri) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

It doesn't need to be a ttf. You can use the Type 1 font. But keep in mind that Computer Modern is not monospaced. xterm won't look nice.

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 20, 2006 21:44 UTC (Fri) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Computer Modern includes a "typewriter" style font, sometimes known as
"cmtt".

Apparently Debian patches the lmodern package to make sure that one is
truly monospaced.

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 23, 2006 9:15 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

They do know that patching Computer Modern is treason, or blasphemy, or something, right?

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 24, 2006 0:07 UTC (Tue) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> They do know that patching Computer Modern is treason, or blasphemy,
> or something, right?

It's the same deal as Firefox -- you don't try to pass your derivative
font off as the Authorised Version. But patching is fine if you change
the name. (I'm not sure whether the Authorised Name is
actually "Computer Modern" or the short form "cmr" though)

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 25, 2006 23:06 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

No, that's not strong enough. Knuth's reaction when someone (Slackware?)
*did* fiddle some tiny detail of Computer Modern without changing the name
makes it clear that this is more than mere copyright :)

Forget Linus getting religious about the GPL. Knuth's religious about TeX
producing identical consistent output everywhere, everywhen. Look at the
TRIP and TRAP tests: output computed *by hand* and then compared with the
machine's idea of it.

That sort of monastic dedication to the most nanoscopic details... *that*
is religious programming. (And it's really very impressive... from a very
long way away.)

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 20, 2006 23:59 UTC (Fri) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

The article said some fonts have the source code .mf-file (metafont).
AFAIK, you can compile those to .ttf...

Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 21, 2006 22:56 UTC (Sat) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

Try this link-- although I must say the standard reply, "Google is your friend." I did a search of "Computer Modern Truetype", and the first hit was the Wikipedia page for Computer Modern, and the first link in their Resources section was this link. So... you might want to Google first next time...