Overview

This document contains an overview of the new font commands of L^ATEX.

Section 2

describes the commands for selecting fonts in classes and packages. It lists the five L^ATEX font attributes, and lists the commands for selecting fonts. It also describes how to customize the author commands such as \textrm and \textit to suit your document design.

Section 3

explains the commands for controlling L^ATEX math fonts. It describes how to specify new math fonts and new math symbols.

Section 4

explains how to install new fonts into L^ATEX. It shows how L^ATEX font attributes are turned into TEX font names, and how to specify your own fonts using font definition files.

Section 5

discusses text font encodings. It describes how to declare a new encoding and how to define commands, such as \AE or \", which have different definitions in different encodings, depending on whether ligatures, etc. are available in the encoding.

Section 6

covers font miscellanea. It describes how L^ATEX performs font substitution, how to customize fonts that are preloaded in the L^ATEX format, and the naming conventions used in L^ATEX font selection.