LaTeX Font Guide Note

font shape

See the problems below:

• What is Font Shape ? (Maybe call this typeface? )
• Does Font shape rely on encoding, family, series ?
• Which files provide these (font) shape?

See a simple example:

\DeclareFontShape{OMX}{cmex}{m}{n}{%
  <-7.5>cmex7%
  <7.5-8.5>cmex8%
  <8.5-9.5>cmex9%
  <9.5->cmex10%
}{}%

searching on local, you will see:

• cmex7: cmex7.afm, cmex7.mf, cmex7.tfm, cmex7.pfb, cmex8.pfm
• cmex8: cmex8.afm, cmex8.mf, cmex8.tfm, cmex8.pfb, cmex8.pfm

Thus these shape are originally provided by these font files (The *.fd files are of importance as well).

mind map

Below is the LaTeX font guide note for TeXLive:

The note and pdf version of this picture can be find at: LaTeX Font Guide Note mind map