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### 1.2 References

Related files and distributions:

- The TeX Directory Structure (TDS) standard, available at (http://tug.org/tds and `CTAN:/tds`) specifies a directory tree for all TeX library files. The directory names given in Suppliers and Typefaces are intended to mesh with that standard.
- The `modes.mf` file (ftp://tug.org/tex/modes.mf) contains recommended mode names to use as directory names.
- The Fontinst distribution (http://tug.org/applications/fontinst supports quite general creation of virtual fonts, named according to the scheme given here.
- The Dvips translator (http://tug.org/dvips) supports resident and downloadable PostScript fonts. Dvips was the first place where Fontname became widely known. Dvips also includes Afm2tfm, another program that can create virtual fonts.
- The Dviljk processor (included in TeX Live) contains TeX support for the fonts built into the LaserJet 4.
- `Designing New Typefaces with Metafont', by Richard Southall, Stanford Computer Science Department Technical Report STAN-CS-85-1074, September 1985, for a comprehensive terminology of font design.