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Article #1796Re: darker Courier?
From: dhosek
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:45
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 00:45
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In article <61060005@acf3.NYU.EDU>, kesich@acf3.NYU.EDU (John Kesich,321wwh,998-3047,) writes: > I have a user who is TeXing a book containing programming examples in Pascal. > The examples are set in Courier with Courier-Bold for key words. The problem > is that Courier is far too light, and we would like to darken it a bit. > My first thought is to create a darker Courier using afm2tfm with dvips, > but how to do this, and whether it can even be done is not clear to me. Can't be done. Well, actually, expanding it will slightly increase the apparent weight, but probably not enough. > I would, of course, welcome other solutions to the problem of creating > a darker Courier. Use a different face. The most attractive monospace I've seen is cmtt, but there's no bold. Font & Function doesn't list a lot of monospace designs and most don't have a bold anyway. Perhaps you should switch to a non-monospace for listings. -dh
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