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> Italic symbols are also de rigueur in mathematical typesetting.  I've often
>wondered why they weren't included with the LaserWriter, and assumed that they
>could be obtained by slanting the roman (as is done for bitmap fonts); but a
>recent perusal of the PostScript Language Reference Manual did not reveal any
>way to do this.

[12 0 6.93 12 0 0] makefont

"The third element in a transformation matrix affects the angle by which the
font is obliqued."
PS Language Tutorial (my book is blue) p 97.   Is that what you need?  Real
italics letters are more curly than merely obliqued ones, but the obliqued ones
don't look bad.