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Platypus is the free, comprehensive, and easy to use page-layout and typesetting system available at http://platypus.pz.org

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Modifying Fonts Included with Platypus

Platypus bundles several fonts : a monospaced font and a serif font. It will later add one, perhaps two, symbol fonts.

For the last release, the serif font was Gentium. This font, while beautiful, has several limitations that suggest replacing it. Namely, it has no bold implementation and it has support for only a limited number of symbols (but a vast array of letter glyphs).

It will be replaced with JUnicode, which is also a beautiful font. It comes in regular, bold, italic, and bold italic versions, and has better support for symbols.