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Re: Wanted: CM compatible bold TT TeX font

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From: Chris Torek
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1989 09:55
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In article <18@iisat.UUCP> dymaxion@iisat.UUCP (Dymaxion Research) writes:
>We are looking for a bold TT TeX font designed to be used with
>using the Computer Modern font family from the standard TeX
>distribution.

The cm \tt font is already quite heavy; I would think than an emboldened
version would be too black for much use at all.

If you need two visually distinct instances of `typewriter' text, it
would probably be better to create an underlined tt font instead.
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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: Wanted: CM compatible bold TT TeX font
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Date: 26 Jul 89 09:55:40 GMT
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