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Article #642Re: TeX vs. PS (.tfm files)
From: Jan Michael Rynning
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1989 21:50
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1989 21:50
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In article <1989Jun28.175531.8966@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>Instead, rewrite them as
>
> \font\sf9=Helvetica scaled 900
1. TeX only accepts letters in symbols, not digits, so trying to use "sf9"
as the TeX symbol that refers to the font will result in TeX using the
symbol "sf", and screwing up trying to find the font "9=Helvetica".
2. Some implementations use a 10pt default size for PostScript fonts, but
most of those that I have seen use a 1pt (the PostScript default size).
On the latter, asking for "scaled 900" will of course give you a 0.9pt
size font, which is som small that it is hardly visible.
The following, syntactically correct, definition should give you a 9pt size
Helvetica on both kinds of implementations:
\font\ninesf=Helvetica at 9pt
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!kth!draken!jmr From: jmr@nada.kth.se (Jan Michael Rynning) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: TeX vs. PS (.tfm files) Message-ID: <1231@draken.nada.kth.se> Date: 1 Jul 89 21:50:55 GMT References: <8634@cadnetix.COM> <1989Jun28.175531.8966@cs.rochester.edu> Reply-To: jmr@nada.kth.se (Jan Michael Rynning) Distribution: comp Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden Lines: 25