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25  TEX Font Names

In previous releases the previewer had a fixed list of font external names that were to be taken as TEX fonts. Now that list is made at start-up based on patterns in a preference item (Options + Expert + TeX Font Names ¼). You may set this string to a series of patterns which the previewer will match against font names; the previewer will consider any font whose external name matches one of the patterns to be a TEX font using the ``TEX ad hoc'' encoding; the previewer will apply ANSI encoding to all other fonts. The default value of the string is:

cm*;eu*;lasy*;lcircle*;line*;msam*;msbm*;logo*

which replicates the behavior of the tables built into previous releases. The patterns in the default string refer respectively to: Computer Modern, Euler, LATEX symbols, LATEX circles, LATEX lines, AM S Math Symbols ``A'' and ``B'', and the METAFONT logo font. In the patterns, you may use an asterisk (*) as a wild card; the general pattern syntax follows that of the Unix grep and sed programs so that you may indicate more complex patterns. The preference item value is given as TEXFONTNAMES in the .INI file.

Note that you should not specify a Belleek-encoded font, such as the TEX DC fonts (dcr10, etc.) as ``TEX fonts'' in this regard, since they do not use the TEX ad hoc encoding method.

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