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latex-fonts

Provides essential font collections required for core LaTeX functionality, including specialized fonts for slides, diagrams, and mathematical symbols.

Overview

Serves as a fundamental font collection that underpins many standard LaTeX packages and document classes. The collection includes specialized fonts crucial for various LaTeX features and environments.

  • Contains 'invisible' fonts specifically designed for creating slide presentations
  • Includes line and circle fonts essential for the picture environment and geometric diagrams
  • Features dedicated LaTeX symbol fonts for specialized notation
  • Works in conjunction with Computer Modern font variants from the amsfonts distribution
  • Available in both Metafont source format and as metric (tfm) files, with many fonts also accessible in Adobe Type 1 format

Getting Started

The latex-fonts is a collection of font files, not a LaTeX package that you include directly with \usepackage. These fonts are typically already installed as part of your TeX distribution and are used automatically by standard LaTeX packages and classes.

No special setup is required in your LaTeX documents to use these fonts, as they are accessed by the LaTeX system when needed for features like:

  • Invisible fonts for the slides class
  • Line and circle fonts for the picture environment
  • LaTeX symbol fonts

These fonts work in conjunction with Computer Modern font variants from the amsfonts distribution.

Examples

Using the line fonts for enhanced picture environment drawings.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lineno}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\begin{picture}(200,100)
% Draw a rectangle with line fonts
\put(50,20){\line(1,0){100}}
\put(50,20){\line(0,1){60}}
\put(50,80){\line(1,0){100}}
\put(150,20){\line(0,1){60}}

% Add diagonal lines using line fonts
\put(50,20){\line(1,1){60}}
\put(150,80){\line(-1,-1){60}}
\end{picture}
\caption{Geometric shapes using line fonts}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Demonstrating the LaTeX symbol fonts in a document.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{document}
\section{LaTeX Symbol Fonts Example}

The \texttt{textcomp} package provides special symbol fonts used by LaTeX.

Some symbols from the LaTeX symbol fonts include:

\textregistered{} -- Registered trademark symbol

¥ -- Japanese Yen symbol

$\maltese$ -- Maltese cross symbol

These symbols are part of the standard LaTeX symbol set and are made available through the \texttt{textcomp} package.
\end{document}