/usr/athena/lib/tex/fontsThose are the font metric files that latex uses; if there's a font-metric file for it, latex can typeset in it (although it may not be able to print it in all sizes). Currently, there are 240 different font-metric files.
For example, if you wanted to use the tengwar font specified by the file tengwar.tfm, you'd have a document like:
\documentstyle[]{article} \begin{document} \newfont{\elvish}{tengwar} The One Ring: {\elvish Three rings for the elven kings under the sky Nine for mortal men doomed to die Seven for the dwarf lords in their halls of stone One for the dark lord on his dark throne In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them One ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie.} \end{document}The phrase The One Ring: would be typeset in normal text, but the other text would be typeset in the tengwar font, which is for elvish languages.
There are samples of all the fonts in the directory:
/mit/consult/lib/tex/misc/fontsThe files new1.dvi, new2.dvi, new3.dvi, and new4.dvi are the ones you want to preview; they contain samples of the fonts. The .tex files that were used to create these are also in the same directory.
You can view .dvi files in that directory and see what the fonts will look like when you print them by typing
attach consultand so on for the other files.
xdvi /mit/consult/lib/tex/misc/fonts/new1.dvi &
If you want to change all the fonts in a document to some postscript font, you need to add the appropriate documentstyle option, as listed below. Note that Palatino is not available on the old LN03 printers:
Font Desired Documentstyle needed ------------ -------------------- Times Roman timrom New Century Schlbk newcen Palatino palatinoIf you are using dvips instead of dvi2ps, use the following options instead:
Font Desired Documentstyle needed ------------ -------------------- Times Roman times * New Century Schlbk ncs * Avant Garde avantgarde * Helvetica helvetica * Palatino new-pal **The asterisk indicates that the style files are in the sipb locker, so you must attach sipb, and you must extend your TEXINPUTS environment variable so that includes the directory /mit/sipb/lib/tex/macros, e.g.:
attach sipb attach texfonts setenv TEXINPUTS .:/usr/athena/lib/tex/macros:/mit/sipb/lib/tex/macros setenv TEXFONTS .:/usr/athena/lib/tex/fonts:/mit/sipb/lib/tex/fonts/\ tfm:/mit/sipb/lib/tex/fonts/vf:/mit/texfonts:/mit/texfonts/ipa: setenv TEXPKS $TEXFONTS extend TEXPKS /mit/sipb/lib/tex/fonts/pk: setenv PKFONTS $TEXPKSYou can add these lines to your .environment file if you wish them to take effect automatically whenever you log in. The double asterisk indicates the file is in the consult directory. Follow the same directions as above substituting sipb with consult, i.e.:
attach consult setenv TEXINPUTS .:/usr/athena/lib/tex/macros:/mit/consult/lib/tex/macros:Of course, you can extend your TEXINPUTS even more to include all three directories if you wish.