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Date:         Sat, 18 May 1996 21:04:30 +0200
From: Frank Jensen <fj@IESD.AUC.DK>
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Subject:      Re: More on fontdimensions
Status: R

J"org Knappen asked:
> Therefore I'd like to ask, if this waste of space is tolerable, or whether
> the additional font dimensions should low numbers again. Since there are
> less than 13 (or even 22) additional dimensions, the dc fonts can't be
> mistaken for math italic or math extension fonts by TeX.

I think it's tolerable.  We are talking about up to 15 font dimension
parameters of four bytes each -- 60 bytes in total (unless I'm
mistaken about the size of the quantities).  Compared to the number of
width, height, and depth dimensions for all the indidividual glyphs of
a font (yes, I know that not all glyphs can have different heights,
for example, but still ...), this is nothing to worry about.

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Frank Jensen,   fj@iesd.auc.dk
Department of Computer Science
Aalborg University
DENMARK