Received: by nummer-3.proteosys id <01C19443.905EB37C@nummer-3.proteosys>; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:44:04 +0100 In-Reply-To: <2807.9201061039@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.905EB37C" 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: fontdef issues Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1992 18:48:15 +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: 486 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.905EB37C Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Don Hosek writes: > Slides are another issue altogether. How the NFSS and SliTeX > interface I don't know because a certain person whose name starts > with "F" and ends with "h" and has "ank Mittelbac" in the middle > has never released his version of sfonts.new (or at least not > while I was looking). i expect you hate 3rd-party add-ons, but I have been using NFSS SLiTeX for ages... see [.latex.styles.fontsel.soton]sfonts* at Aston. > > I don't know that size is really an issue with 40M drives > generally a minimum in the personal computing world and the fact > that a well-chosen set of fonts can fit in less than 2M of disk > space ("well-chosen" means every font mentioned in > lfonts.new+every font chosen in plain.tex plus every plain TeX > font _not_ preloaded at magsteps 0, 0.5 and 1-5). but there is no standard set of fonts for lfonts.new! there are various suggestions by Frank and Rainer, but I dont think they claim these are `official', do they? I really cannot see how you manage with this 2Mb, by the way. sebastian ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.905EB37C Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Re: fontdef issues

Don Hosek writes:
 > Slides are another issue altogether. How = the NFSS and SliTeX
 > interface I don't know because a certain = person whose name starts
 > with "F" and ends with = "h" and has "ank Mittelbac" in the middle
 > has never released his version of = sfonts.new (or at least not
 > while I was looking).
i expect you hate 3rd-party add-ons, but I have been = using NFSS SLiTeX
for ages... see [.latex.styles.fontsel.soton]sfonts* = at Aston.

 >
 > I don't know that size is really an issue = with 40M drives
 > generally a minimum in the personal = computing world and the fact
 > that a well-chosen set of fonts can fit in = less than 2M of disk
 > space ("well-chosen" means every = font mentioned in
 > lfonts.new+every font chosen in plain.tex = plus every plain TeX
 > font _not_ preloaded at magsteps 0, 0.5 = and 1-5).
but there is no standard set of fonts for lfonts.new! = there are
various suggestions by Frank and Rainer, but I dont = think they claim
these are `official', do they? I really cannot see = how you manage with
this 2Mb, by the way.

sebastian

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