X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["776" "Wed" "16" "April" "1997" "11:39:22" "+0100" "Sebastian Rahtz" "s.rahtz@ELSEVIER.CO.UK" nil "20" "Re: Alternatives to LaTeX (Was Some comments...)" "^Date:" nil nil "4" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id MAA01401; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:39:58 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <15.C180F5F4@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:39:57 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 125639 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:39:53 +0200 Received: from pillar.elsevier.co.uk (root@pillar.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id MAA21188 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 12:39:47 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by pillar.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA22452 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:37:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk by snowdon.elsevier.co.uk with SMTP (PP); Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:39:34 +0100 Received: from lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk (lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.216.1]) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA06818 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:39:26 +0100 (BST) Received: (from srahtz@localhost) by lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA24369; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:39:22 +0100 (BST) References: Message-ID: <199704161039.LAA24369@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 11:39:22 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Alternatives to LaTeX (Was Some comments...) Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1949 > Is there not a problem here: PostScript fonts may only come in one size, > which then is rescaled. > > But in correct typesetting, as in TeX fonts, the weights and proportions > actually change with the font size. > > So how does that work out here? um, this is what i would call a canard. we have known this since the first uses of PS fonts in TeX (I did my first book in LaTeX with Times in 1986). its a fact of life that most PS fonts only come in 10 pt size. Some have other sizes. Many Computer Modern fonts have a range of sizes, some have more than others. 99% of the typesetting world gets by fine with the (technically perhaps inferior) optical-scaling-plus-hints of Type1 fonts. I suggest there are more productive things to worry about Sebastian