From 223006b5cca4edcc31d11c5545b09b22c59ec765 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Maxim Cournoyer Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2021 17:10:47 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] gnu: texlive-psnfss: Improve description. * gnu/packages/tex.scm (texlive-psnfss): Improve description. --- gnu/packages/tex.scm | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/gnu/packages/tex.scm b/gnu/packages/tex.scm index 84fcb81f7a..7b4e0217e6 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/tex.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/tex.scm @@ -3510,11 +3510,15 @@ (define-public texlive-psnfss (description "The PSNFSS collection includes a set of files that provide a complete working setup of the LaTeX font selection scheme (NFSS2) for use with common -PostScript fonts. It covers the so-called \"Base\" fonts (which are built -into any Level 2 PostScript printing device and the Ghostscript interpreter) -and a number of free fonts. It provides font definition files, macros and -font metrics. The bundle as a whole is part of the LaTeX required set of -packages.") +PostScript fonts. The base set of text fonts covered by PSNFSS includes the +AvantGarde, Bookman, Courier, Helvetica, New Century Schoolbook, Palatino, +Symbol, Times Roman and Zapf Dingbats fonts. In addition, the fonts Bitstream +Charter and Adobe Utopia are covered. Separate packages are provided to load +each font for use as the main text font. The package @code{helvet} allows +Helvetica to be loaded with its size scaled to something more appropriate for +use as a Sans-Serif font to match Times, while @code{pifont} provides the +means to select single glyphs from symbol fonts. The bundle as a whole is +part of the LaTeX required set of packages.") (license license:lppl1.2+)))) (define-public texlive-latex-psnfss