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In-Reply-To:  Uwe Muench's message of Thu,
              4 Nov 93 18:19:23 +0100
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Date:         Fri, 5 Nov 93 10:51:26 +0100
From: Bernd Raichle <Raichle@INFORMATIK.UNI-STUTTGART.DE>
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Subject:      Re: latex2e, nfss2 and internal font selection commands
Status: R


Uwe Muench <muench@PH-CIP.UNI-KOELN.DE> said:
UM> Our users often use pictex.tex and the pictex-exports of the program 'xfig'.
UM> The pictex.tex-macro only uses the internal font selection command \fiverm,
UM> but 'xfig' exports code, which contains many commands as \tenrm, \sevenrm,
UM> etc (mostly of no need, but it does). I see, that it is possible to write
UM> such things as
UM> \newcommand{\fiverm}{\fontfamily{cmr}\fontseries{m}\fontshape{n}%
UM> \fontsize{5}{7}\selectfont}
UM> in pictex.tex (though there should be no changes in the original file),
UM> but I do not know, how to change 'xfig', so that it does not export
UM> these internal font selection commands. [...]

It's not `xfig' who uses LaTeX's old internal control sequence name
for fonts, the fig2* converters write the files with these control
sequences.  You simply have to change these converters.

The good news: newer versions of these converters are changed to work
with NFSS1/2.  You have to update to

	transfig, Version 2.1.8

which is available from ftp servers with an up-to-date X11 archive (in
.../X11/contrib/clients/transfig/...) and you should update your xfig
version, too.


> So the question remains: What is the recommended way to get rid of such
> internal commands, when they are produced by some software (or: who updates
> the styles (such as pictex.tex) to be nfss2-compatible). Global definiton or
> style-files do not seem to be a good solution, do they?

Change (= update) the software, style files, ... and report the
changes to the given contact address.


Bernd Raichle