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In article <1992Aug27.174538.1@lucy.claremont.edu> dhosek@lucy.claremont.edu writes:
>   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

This is a good point. I don't care much for the cmr faces, theyr hairlines
are too light for ordinary paper, but his gotesque faces (and concrete!) 
are beautiful.

The Adobe PostScript font library contains only four monospaced fonts,
none of which blend well with Times. What I'd do if I were you is to use a
Pascal to LaTeX formatting program. That way, you won't need monospace.

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