[tex-live] Adding a font map? (I want to install URW Arial font).

[Staszek Wawrykiewicz]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Mark London wrote:

> Ok, I FINALLY have gotten the fonts installed, after multiple tries.
> 
> However, as I said previously, I would like to be able to specific the fonts 
> with my own name, i.e.
> 
> \font\arial10=arial at 10pt
             == ???

I'm affraid, no. Please try \font\arial=<tfmfontname> at 10pt instead. 
Please observe that "1" is control sequence separator (in your example).
 
> rather than having to use 
> 
> \font\arial10=ua1r8r at 10pt
> 
> Can I change the font name?  Thanks! - Mark 

why you cannot use, e.g., \font\arialx=...

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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
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