Re: Boldface math/greek font?

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From: Perry Hutchison
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1989 04:02

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In article <1349@sagepub.UUCP> dfm@sagepub.UUCP (David F. McCune) writes:

> One customer [needs] boldface mathematical symbols and Greek letters.
> The "Symbol" font ... does not come in boldface (or italic).

You can get somewhat the effect of bold by expanding the font in the X
direction.  Instead of italic, you might try oblique.  Such variants can
be created by twiddling the FontMatrix.

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From: perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Boldface math/greek font?
Keywords: math greek boldface font postscript
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Date: 29 Sep 89 04:02:15 GMT
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