Looking for small Courier-like font

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2 total messages Started by Stefan Stapelberg Wed, 02 Sep 1992 13:12

#2058

Author: Stefan Stapelberg
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 13:12

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Hello Netpeople,

i am looking for a downloadable fixed-pitch PS font with a char width
of 0.5em (14.4 cpi). It should have the Standard PS Character Encoding
or at least have different back and single quotes.  The char width of
Adobe's Courier font is 0.6em (12 cpi). I need a smaller font to type-
set program listings in books and papers.

I already know LetterGothic which has 0.5em chars, but i need a font
with serifes (sp?) like Courier, PrestigeElite or something like the
Computer Modern Typewriter Type (cmtt) from TeX.  I also heard about
a fixed-pitch font named Amrican Typewriter, but i couldn't get any
information about this font (Adobe has an ITC American Typewriter
font, but this is not a fixed-pitch font as i understand).

The support people at Linotype Germany don't know any small fonts.
They even can't say you the (fixed) char width of PrestigeElite.
I bought PrestigeElite and discovered that it has the same width
as Courier does (somebody out there need a PrestigeElite font? :-)

I appreciate any hints to commercial or non-commercial offers. It
is very urgent, so please respond by mail.  Thanks for your help.

regards, Stefan

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Re: Looking for small Courier-like font

#2102

Author: Henry Churchyard
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 21:20

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In article <2286@shiva.rent-a-guru.de>, stefan@rent-a-guru.de (Stefan Stapelberg) writes:
> 
> i am looking for a downloadable fixed-pitch PS font with a char width
> of 0.5em (14.4 cpi). 

hmm...  If I understand you, you want a fixed-pitch font that will
print out at 14.4 cpi at a pointsize of 12.  So why not just do the
following:

  /MyNewCourier /Courier findfont [8.333 0 0 12 0 0] makefont def

and then do

   MyNewCourier setfont

whenever you want to use the font?

  The little bugger will be kinda narrow-looking, tho'....

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         --Henry Churchyard     churchh@emx.cc.utexas.edu

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