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Date:         Tue, 9 Mar 93 16:14:00 GMT
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Subject:      Re: Fonts and LaTeX 3
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 >
 > How many angels you can get on a pinhead depends on how much they like
 > each other.
 >
hate is as good a glue as love

 > to fit the x height of the cm math fonts. It's the cm math fonts that
 > should be scaled. I'd like to have LaTeX 3 provide a way to scale the math
 > fonts for the benefit of those of us who use scalable (e.g. PS) math fonts.)
what is stopping you scaling the cm maths fonts? its possible in the
old NFSS, and certainly easy in NFSS2 (keep that breath bated)

 > One thing that I've quite forgotten - some characters are
 > built as macros and don't get substitued with real glyphs automatically
...
 > more convenient to change the definitions of which macros expand to what
 > characters according to whether the chosen font supports it or not. This,
 > I suppose, might be brought about by a properly constructed
 > encoding

thats just what you can do in NFSS2, supply a list of definitions to
be set up when a given encoding is activated. so we take things like
\ldots and \AA and \pounds, and stuff all that encoding-dependent
stuff into an NFSS2 encoding, and away we go. I proved to my
satisfaction it works by having a document with CM sans in DC-encoding
mixed with old-TeX-encoded Times or the like, and simply having \sf
slip me into the appropriate encoding.

Sebastian