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In article <1349@sagepub.UUCP>, dfm@sagepub.UUCP (David F. McCune) writes:
> I use Ventura Publisher and a Postscript printer to typeset books.
> One customer has given me a manuscript that calls for boldface
> mathematical symbols and Greek letters.  The "Symbol" font that
> is included in the standard 35 resident Postscript fonts does not
> come in boldface (or italic).  Judging from the Adobe catalog, there
> is no math typeface available from Adobe in bold and italic.  Does
> anyone know of any other Postscript typeface that I can buy?  Or is
> there another way to skin this cat?  Thanks!
> 
>                  David McCune, Sage Publications, Inc.

Here's an incredibly savage way of getting ersatz bold, italic,
and bold italic 10 point Symbol:

/S10-Bold {dup /Symbol findfont 1000 scalefont setfont 0 0 moveto show 
           30 0 moveto show} bind def
/S10-Italic{/Symbol findfont [1000 0 267.95 1000 0 0] makefont setfont 
            0 0 moveto show} bind def
/S10-BoldItalic{dup /Symbol findfont [1000 0 267.95 1000 0 0] makefont setfont 
                0 0 moveto show 30 0 moveto show} bind def

Hold your stomach -- they aren't pleasant, and depending on the width
of the character, you may have problems with some wide characters
going off the edge of the bounding box.
-- 
Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
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