Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically

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From: David Hull
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 1990 05:44

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p_davis@epik.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis) writes:
>Other than this, I don't know of any systems which do deal with multiple
>masters, except for phototypesetters.  If you have a phototypesetter, you're
>already getting high resolution output.

A properly designed Metafont font (as used by TeX) will have different
feature sizes depending on its size.  According to Don Knuth's book on
the Computer Modern typefaces the vertical dimensions of Computer
Modern Roman as scaled linearly, but "horizontally the smaller fonts
are more extended, and they have relatively heavier weight (especially
in hairlines)."

-David

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Subject: Re: Doubling Font sizes and Shrinking Photographically
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