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In article <20287@mimsy.umd.edu> chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes:
   It is easy enough to change the `amcsc10 \@ptscale8' and `amcsc10
   \@ptscale9' lines to `cmcsc10 \@ptscale8' and `cmcsc10 \@ptscale9',
   although you will then need GF or PK files corresponding to these
   downscaled cmcsc10 fonts.  This is still a kludge, since there
   really should be a cmcsc8 and cmcsc9---but for that you have to do
   much more work.

I started on this over a year ago, actually, and got mostly finished
but had to stop.  The characters look OK but some work needs to be
done on the spacing between various pairs of characters.  Font design
is harder than I thought, even when the hard parts had already been
done!  If anyone wants to help, let me know, otherwise I'll try to
finish it soon.

   (No one has yet explained the *purpose* of the kludge in TeXhax,
   although the question came up some time ago.)

As I heard it, the conversion from AM to CM fonts was done on a system
that didn't have cmcsc10 scaled at .8 and .9 (which are quite non-
standard sizes), and that system also didn't have an easy way to
create new fonts at the time.  So there's really just an excuse, not a
reason for the kludge, and for now it is best to generate cmcsc10 at
the appropriate sizes with Metafont.
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Joe Weening                                Computer Science Dept.
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