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Article #7649

Re: Postscript code to display a font

#7649
From: Richard J Cox
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 1988 10:50
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In article <654@draken.nada.kth.se> ulfis@nada.kth.se (Anders Ulfheden) writes:
>In article <20@orchid.warwick.ac.uk> maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox) writes:
>>In article <648@draken.nada.kth.se> ulfis@nada.kth.se (Anders Ulfheden) writes:
>>>
>>>Funny, i have just completed my program which does almost the same
>>> [Stuff deleted]
>>
>>I think there is a `program' (in TeX) to do this in the back of the METAfont 
>>book, I would check but my copy is at home.
>
>For built-in PostScript fonts???

Yes - just use \font\somename=Fontname at size.

And then use that font. TeX can use any font it has the .tfm files for, here
we have them for quite alot of postscript fonts (I don't know how many of them
are 'standard' or added). In fact I only use the Computer Modern fonts for
the maths italic and symbol fonts.

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From: maujt@warwick.ac.uk (Richard J Cox)
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Subject: Re: Postscript code to display a font
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Date: 24 Nov 88 10:50:56 GMT
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