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Date:         Sat, 9 Apr 1994 18:27:41 +0100
From: Frank Mittelbach <MITTELBACH@mzdmza.zdv.uni-mainz.de>
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Subject:      Re: LaTeX2e and PostScript
Status: R

Frank Poppe said:

> It seems to me that the italic variant should be mapped to the italic
> shape in the NFSS scheme, while the oblique variants should be mapped to
> the slanted shape. In the PSNFSS package this is the case now, except
> for Courier-Oblique and  -BoldOblique, which are mapped to pcr/m/it and
> pcr/b/it (this should be pcr/m/sl and pcr/b/sl in my opinion).
>
> But in _The LaTeX Companion_ both italic and oblique are said to
> represent the italic shape. See table 11.6 on page 333. It seems to me
> that all entries for the sans-serif families should have "n, sl" in the
> "shape" column.

this was a mistake in PSNFSS (probably by copying data :-) and
found later on its way into TC as well. It will be corrected.

> Finally I wondered about the Helvetiva-Narrow fonts. The PSNFSS package
> does not use them. I have added entries in the FD file for phv/c/n,
> etc., and this works well.

as far as i know they will be added as well.

frank