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Article #10497Re: (non)-guru words on maths extension fonts
From: Steven Smith
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 19:45
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1991 19:45
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In article <16629@life.ai.mit.edu> bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes: > P.S. You may know that Ralph Youngen of AMS made up a math italic font using > a Times Roman italic (reported in TUGboat). That is the only successful > effort of getting non-CM math fonts into TeX that I am aware off so far. Is this math italic font publicly available? If so, where can one find it. Also, does there exist a virtual font similar to the font cmsy using, say, the "raw" PostScript font rpsyr? By the way, the reason that the characters within cmex hang below the baseline is given in Vol. E of Computers and Typesetting. (I don't wish to be coy by not revealing the reason here; I simply can't recall the rationale.) Steven Smith
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!hsdndev!husc6!husc6.harvard.edu!smith From: smith@zeus.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: (non)-guru words on maths extension fonts Message-ID: <SMITH.91Jun26154549@zeus.harvard.edu> Date: 26 Jun 91 19:45:49 GMT References: <6544.9106232128@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> <16629@life.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Harvard Robotics Lab, Harvard University Lines: 14 In-reply-to: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu's message of 24 Jun 91 12:40:58 GMT