Where did TeX and LaTeX come from, and what do they mean to me?
Click here to go to the TeX User’s Group’s beginner’s page. • Why am unable to use the post script fonts that I installed on my computer? PCTeX32 is able to use PostScript fonts. Before it is able to utilize them, however, they must be installed in the Windows/fonts directory in True Type format. (there are many programs available for converting from Post Script to True Type) Once this has been successfully accomplished, one may generate the appropriate TeX Metric File (TFM/.tfm) for any one of the True Type fonts in the Windows/fonts directory. In PCTeX32, in the “Settings… TFM files…” menu, simply press the “Generate TFM File and Decimal Map” button. Select the font you need, press “OK”, and PCTeX32 will do the rest. The TFM files, give PCTeX32 metric measurements of your font’s characters, which help with proper typesetting. Don’t forget to write down the font’s ‘code name’ that PCTeX32 has given your font, which is shown in the corresponding DVI file, in the upper left-hand cor
