FONT with male / female symbol

[Una Smith]

A TAXACOM reader asked me how to use special fonts when submitting
manuscripts electronically.

>In electronic submissions you need to use a widely used font such as
>Times/Times Roman or Helvetica and neither of these generally held
>fonts has such symbols.

These are "founts".  You can extend these founts by adding specific
font files to your computer.  Most of the font files used in the
document I cited are *free* and *Type 1* and you don't need to use
LaTeX to use them!  You can download most of these font files from
http://www.tug.org/ or any of dozens of mirror web and FTP sites.

Free fonts you can *give* to your editor/publisher;  non-free fonts
you can tell your editor/publisher how to get themselves.

Yet another strategy would be to include in your electronic file the
LaTeX command for special symbols, plus a separate document (paper
or PDF with *embedded* fonts) with a table of the LaTeX commands in
your document and the matching symbol:

        \Female         ...
        \Male           ...

To be really clear about what you mean, enclose each LaTeX command
in curly braces, like this:  {\Female}.  The editor or publisher
can then do an easy search-and-replace on your document to insert
the correct symbol in the correct font.

The brilliant thing about LaTeX is that the author's source is pure
ASCII.

Do yourself and your editors and publishers a favor, and only use
*Type 1* aka *PostScript* fonts.

--
        Una Smith

Los Alamos National Laboratory, Mailstop K-710, Los Alamos, NM  87545