X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["701" "Wed" "16" "April" "1997" "08:16:32" "-0400" "Michael Downes" "mjd@MATH.AMS.ORG" nil "19" "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 OAA11051; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:16:55 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <1.4A1990AC@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:16:50 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 125766 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:16:45 +0200 Received: from math.ams.org (math.ams.org [130.44.210.14]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with SMTP id OAA25254 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 14:16:43 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from axp14.ams.org by math.ams.org via smtpd (for relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de [129.206.119.201]) with SMTP; 16 Apr 1997 12:16:34 UT Received: from epsilon.ams.org by AXP14.AMS.ORG (PMDF V5.1-8 #16534) with SMTP id <01IHRLPS5XGG000TJZ@AXP14.AMS.ORG> for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:16:33 EST Received: from localhost by epsilon.ams.org; (5.65/1.1.8.2/12Oct95-1155AM) id AA13468; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:16:32 -0400 X-MTS: smtp Message-ID: <9704161216.AA13468@epsilon.ams.org> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: "Your message of Wed, 16 Apr 97 11:39:22 BST." <199704161039.LAA24369@lochnagarn.elsevier.co.uk> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 08:16:32 -0400 From: Michael Downes 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: 1958 [Hans Aberg] > > 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. [Sebastian] > 99% of the typesetting world gets by fine with the (technically > perhaps inferior) optical-scaling-plus-hints of Type1 fonts. (? surely you meant "linear-scaling-plus-hints"?) If a document uses lots of characters at size 7pt and below, the quality difference will be quite noticeable. Otherwise not. In practice this means essentially that only documents with lots of math require optically scaled fonts. Michael Downes, mjd@ams.org