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atmos@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:



>Can anyone help?

>I am having a few problems matching the slant of 10pt Slanted Roman characters 
>(cmsl10) to that of the 10pt Text Italics (cmti10). 

>This is all because I do not like the italic number 4 and I want to replace 
>it with a slanted Roman 4 instead, in headers etc. 

>I have been experimenting with the \fontdimen parameters, but they appear to 
>have no effect. Am I missing the point? 
You are. Playing with the fontdimen parameters will make TeX think the
characters look different (for positioning of accents, the italic correction
is defined for each character). It will not in any way change the appearance
of characters, since they are in fonts defined by METAfont, which are
outside TeXs reach. The outlook of single characters cannot be influenced
from TeX. You have to generate new fonts for that with different parameters.
Forget it, it is much too complicated and not worth the effort.