Re: LaTeX / Metafont was Re: Arabic transliteration

Christophe Grandsire writes:
 > En réponse à Tim May <butsuri@...>:
 >
 > >  >
 > > I'm intending to, because I want a font, and there doesn't appear to
 > > be any serious alternative on Linux.
 >
 > It's true that for what I know, font use is not the strong point of Linux,
 > although it has decent support of Postcript and TTF fonts.
 >
Yeah.. there's a truetype editor called GOTE, but it looks like it's
in a pretty early stage of development, and the webpage hasn't been
updated for a long time.

http://gote.sourceforge.net/

Other than that I've seen no way of producing proportional fonts other
than Metafont.

 > > At the moment I don't even really know to use LaTeX, though, and
 > > whenever I think of studying it I get sidetracked into trying to
 > > get the good printer to work with Linux, so I can print out the
 > > documentation.
 > >
 >
 > Linux beginner hey? :)))
 >

Not really - I'm not saying my knowledge is particularly advanced, but
I've been using Linux for a few years now.  It's just a badly
supported printer (well, there are drivers that are supposed to work,
but I've never any response out of it).  I'd have learnt LaTeX a long
time ago, but it's hard to get enthused about a text processor when
you can't print your output.  (I do have another printer that kind of works,
but it's an old laser printer that needs a new toner cartridge and
preferably an obscure memory upgrade card, and I've never got around
to acquiring them.  If I use it now the pages are smudged and it's
likely to run out of memory if presented with something challenging,
like a table.)

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