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- 35) What is the New Font Selection Scheme (NFSS)?
-
- NFSS is an extension to LaTeX written by Frank Mittelbach and Rainer
- Sch\"opf. It is described in TUGboat, volume 10 (1989), No. 2.
- In traditional typesetting, fonts are described by four parameters:
- the family (e.g., computer modern), the series (i.e., the weight and
- width of the font, like light or bold), the shape (e.g., italic), and
- the size. NFSS is a mechanism allowing the user to change any of these
- independently. NFSS makes it relatively easy to use nonstandard fonts
- such as the PostScript ones with LaTeX, and easy to change math fonts.
- It also allows dynamic loading of fonts at runtime (not when the
- format file is created).
-
- NFSS will be part of version 3.0 of LaTeX. Currently, you need
- to create a new format file to use it. It is available via
- anonymous ftp from all the major archives mentioned in question
- 22. Its home is on rusinfo.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (129.69.1.12) in
- ./soft/tex/latex-style-supported/nfss. NFSS can be used in plain
- TeX as well, through an interface written by Wayne Sullivan.
-
- There is one caveat that applies to LaTeX documents written for
- the OLD scheme: some of them use special styles for special fonts
- which will not work under the NFSS.
-