Received: by nummer-3.proteosys id <01C19443.902DCC7C@nummer-3.proteosys>; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:44:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <2347.9201061025@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.902DCC7C" Return-Path: <@vm.gmd.de:LATEX-L@DHDURZ1.BITNET> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5 x-vm-v5-data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil][nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil]) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Subject: Re: RE:magsteps Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 18:39:23 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: "Sebastian Rahtz" Sender: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" To: "Rainer M. Schoepf" Reply-To: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 484 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.902DCC7C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Frank Mittelbach writes: > > 1) Which fonts are actually in standard use? why do we have those bloody cminch, cmdq*, cmff* fonts? ugh. > > Something nice would be the ability to set up scaling ratios > > based on x-height so that, say Times and Helvetica can be mixed > > with little thought. > > This would in principle possible with the new version although I > suppose a bit complicated. Therefore the question, how important = would actually, it was easier before in NFSS1 (see van Zandts macros). now you say <*->timr in the normal case, but cannot pass a parameter so that the font is actually called with ptimr at \magicratio * \f@size where \magicratio is eg 0.85. I think it is vital to change the syntax to allow this. sebastian ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.902DCC7C Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: RE:magsteps

Frank Mittelbach writes:
 >
 > 1) Which fonts are actually in standard = use?
why do we have those bloody cminch, cmdq*, cmff* = fonts? ugh.

 > > Something nice would be the ability to = set up scaling ratios
 > > based on x-height so that, say Times = and Helvetica can be mixed
 > > with little thought.
 >
 > This would in principle possible with the = new version although I
 > suppose a bit complicated. Therefore the = question, how important would
actually, it was easier before in NFSS1 (see van = Zandts macros). now
you say
 <*->timr
in the normal case, but cannot pass a parameter so = that the font is
actually called with
 ptimr at \magicratio * \f@size
where \magicratio is eg 0.85. I think it is vital to = change the syntax
to allow this.

sebastian

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