Received: by nummer-3.proteosys id <01C19443.9D080274@nummer-3.proteosys>; Thu, 3 Jan 2002 11:44:26 +0100 In-Reply-To: <16933.9202280912@hilliard.ecs.soton.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.9D080274" Return-Path: 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: {1} {1} Some random typographical thoughts Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1992 09:45:22 +0100 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: From: Sender: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" To: "Multiple recipients of" Reply-To: "LaTeX-L Mailing list" Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 595 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.9D080274 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rolf Lindgren writes: > the same line spacing throughout a document. OK, if line spacing is = 12pt, > how do you treat a 16pt subject heading? By setting it with line = spacing > of 12 pt and adding one and a half line before and half a line after. = No > glue. There are two issues for LaTeX 3 a) what LaTeX 3 will offer internally to help style designers b) what the standard styles should look like since what you want (reasonably) can already be done with LaTeX 2, we can assume it wil also be possible with LaTeX 3. at what stage, therefore, do we start the discussion on new standard styles? > The ability to hack of portions of letters and combining them into > single letters. I'd like to be able to hack the dot of the > postscript j, and combine it with an ff ligature to make fj, ffj, its not too difficult. I have code (pinched from the net) which does it OK, but only in the context of creating a new font. I wish some guru would work out how to do it to remangle an old font. > I don't know if it's possible to include these wishes into a driver > specification. But I hope for such a beast to arrive, and I think = Tomas > Rokicki's dvips is closest. The dvips hack afm3tfm allows for = specifying > an encoding vector, but its behavior is pretty erratic. is this my afm3tfm? erratic how? this PS stuff is nothing to do with LaTeX-L sebastian ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19443.9D080274 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable {1} {1} Some random typographical thoughts

Rolf Lindgren writes:
 > the same line spacing throughout a = document. OK, if line spacing is 12pt,
 > how do you treat a 16pt subject heading? = By setting it with line spacing
 > of 12 pt and adding one and a half line = before and half a line after. No
 > glue.
There are two issues for LaTeX 3
 a)  what LaTeX 3 will offer internally to = help style designers
 b)  what the standard styles should look = like
since what you want (reasonably) can already be done = with LaTeX 2, we
can assume it wil also be possible with LaTeX 3. at = what stage,
therefore, do we start the discussion on new standard = styles?

 >      The ability to = hack of portions of letters and combining them into
 >      single letters. = I'd like to be able to hack the dot of the
 >      postscript j, and = combine it with an ff ligature to make fj, ffj,
its not too difficult. I have code (pinched from the = net) which does
it OK, but only in the context of creating a new = font. I wish some
guru would work out how to do it to remangle an old = font.

 > I don't know if it's possible to include = these wishes into a driver
 > specification. But I hope for such a beast = to arrive, and I think Tomas
 > Rokicki's dvips is closest. The dvips hack = afm3tfm allows for specifying
 > an encoding vector, but its behavior is = pretty erratic.
is this my afm3tfm? erratic how?

this PS stuff is nothing to do with LaTeX-L

sebastian


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