AMSFonts

The AMSFonts collection is a set of miscellaneous TeX fonts that augment the standard Computer Modern set normally distributed with TeX. AMSFonts includes

• Extra mathematical symbols
• Blackboard bold letters (uppercase only)
• Fraktur letters
• Subscript sizes of bold math italic and bold Greek letters
• Subscript sizes of large symbols such as sum and product
• Added sizes of the Computer Modern small caps font
• Cyrillic fonts (from the University of Washington)
• Euler math fonts

Because these fonts are standard TeX fonts, they may be used with any standard TeX system.

The bundled distribution of the AMSFonts collection contains:

• Metafont source files
• Macro files for Plain TeX and LaTeX support
• Font metric (TFM) files

Bitmap (PK) files for common output device resolutions and Type 1 (PostScript) outline versions of the AMSFonts are packaged separately.

The AMSFonts User's Guide is available as a ready-to-print PDF file. (A PostScript file and the TeX source are included in the distribution.) This guide contains images of the fonts as well as instructions for their use.

Obtaining the AMSFonts collection

The latest version of AMSFonts is 2.2d.

Several convenient bundles in system-specific formats are available for quick retrieval:

• Windows or DOS (IBM PC and compatibles)
• Macintosh
• Unix and other systems

Instructions for installing these bundles are given in Appendix A of the User's Guide.

If you prefer to obtain the files individually, copy all the files in directory /pub/tex/amsfonts and these subdirectories into an appropriate area on your system, following the instructions in the README file.

For use with TeX:

All users:

/pub/tex/amsfonts/doc

/pub/tex/amsfonts/doc/latex

/pub/tex/amsfonts/latex

/pub/tex/amsfonts/plaintex

/pub/tex/amsfonts/tfm

Users of Cyrillic text:

/pub/tex/amsfonts/cyr-alt

• The Type 1 (PostScript) outline versions of the fonts are packaged for use with various platforms.
• PK (bitmap) files are provided for various output device resolutions either as bundles or in subdirectories of /pub/tex/amsfonts/pk-files.
• Metafont sources are available in subdirectories of /pub/tex/amsfonts/sources for users who wish to generate their own PK files.