Ah yes, but...

Ah yes, but...

Posted Oct 28, 2006 0:54 UTC (Sat) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: Ah yes, but... by jd
Parent article: Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

Please note that most fonts in TeX distributions are *not* MF fonts, but are Type1 fonts. Even on CTAN, most MF fonts are symbol fonts, we have very few type families that are made in MF.

Also, the TeX community goes away from MF, and targets Type1 (with the GUST work) or Opentype fonts (the latter with XeTeX and new work on Omega that will hopefully get merged with pdfTeX).

And, please don't bring up the LaTeX3 straw man. It's a system to experiment with typesetting and a new way of style programming. Current development for authors happens in LaTeX packages and not in the core system -- and there a lot happens, as one can see from the CTAN announcement list. Of course, there is also ConTeXt, for those who are more interested in powerful typesetting (see http://www.pragma-ade.com/overview.htm).

Joachim
[from the CTAN team; co-author of the LaTeX Companion, 2nd ed.]

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