X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1081" "Wed" "16" "April" "1997" "15:46:10" "+0200" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "23" "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 PAA21815; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:46:12 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <0.C4584898@listserv.gmd.de>; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:46:09 +0200 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 125881 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:46:07 +0200 Received: from mail.nada.kth.se (root@mail.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.92]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.6/8.7.4) with ESMTP id PAA29084 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:46:01 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from [130.237.37.128] (sl102.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.128]) by mail.nada.kth.se (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA10950 for ; Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:45:54 +0200 (MET DST) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 15:46:10 +0200 From: Hans Aberg 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: 1965 At 13:46 97-04-16, Robin Fairbairns wrote: >Michael Downes has since added that maths requires lots of use of >small fonts, and therefore implies a need for optical scaling. I >presume he means `optically-scaled maths fonts' (or are there effects >on the text of mathematical publications that I wot not of?). Which >would seem to me to imply that one may not use anything but CMR (or >publishers' private fonts, about which I know essentially nothing >apart from their existence) for maths... The experts will have to answer this more carefully, but I do get the impression that this is indeed the issue: Michael Downes says that small fonts, as used in indices, do require ``optically scaled'' fonts, as opposed ``propostionally scaled'' fonts (if I got the terminology right). So how should one then be able to break out of the use of CMR only, if in addition the text fonts should match the math fonts, and how far can you pragmatically get there? And so on. So you cannot simply flip in some proportionally scaled Adobe fonts, and expect it to work. Hans Aberg