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Article #7644Re: What angle do Times-Ital. and Palatino-Ital. slant at?
From: Greg Lee
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 22:11
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 1988 22:11
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From article <5571@saturn.ucsc.edu>, by funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-): " +-In article <1822@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, James "Kibo" Parry wrote:- " +---------- " | " | I want to slant Times-Italic and Palatino-Italic backwards by " | whatever angle they normally slant at - to produce unslanted "curly" " ... " Do remember that the final arbitrer of everything you do in PostScript is " whether or not it _looks_ good. Precision doesn't matter. If I were you I For the precision freaks, .afm files have a field describing the slant. Palatino-Italic.afm has: ItalicAngle -10.0 and Times-Italic.afm has: ItalicAngle -15.5 I think the figure given is degrees measured counterclockwise from the vertical. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: What angle do Times-Ital. and Palatino-Ital. slant at? Message-ID: <2698@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 23 Nov 88 22:11:18 GMT References: <5571@saturn.ucsc.edu> Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 20