This document contains an overview of the new font commands
of LATEX.
<#19#>description<#19#>
[Section~#Sec:text#20>] describes the commands for selecting fonts
in classes and packages. It lists the five LATEX<#21#><#21#> font
attributes, and lists the commands for selecting fonts. It also
describes how to customize the author commands such as |<#0#> |<#0#> and
|| to suit your document design.
[Section~#Sec:math#22>] explains the commands for controlling
LATEX<#23#><#23#> math fonts. It describes how to specify new math fonts and
new math symbols.
[Section~#Sec:install#24>] explains how to install new fonts into
LATEX. It shows how LATEX<#25#><#25#> font attributes are turned into TEX<#26#><#26#>
font names, and how to specify your own fonts using font definition
files.
[Section~#Sec:encode#27>] discusses text font encodings.
It describes how to declare a new encoding and how to define
commands, such as |Æ| or ||̈, which have different definitions in
different encodings, depending on whether ligatures, etc. are
available in the encoding.
[Section~#Sec:misc#28>] covers font miscellania. It describes how
LATEX<#29#><#29#> performs font substitution, how to customize fonts that are
preloaded in the LATEX<#30#><#30#> format, and the naming conventions used in
LATEX<#31#><#31#> font selection.