richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) (01/13/89)
In lfonts.tex (% File LFONTS - Version of 11 November 1986.) I find the
following comment:
% This file contains the following kludge: 8pt and 9pt versions
% of \sc call magnifications of amcsc10 instead of cmcsc10.
% Search for KLUDGE to find for both instances.
What's the idea of this? If indeed it should really be so, where can I
get a copy of amcsc10.mf (there aren't any am fonts on our tape)?
Thanks,
Richard
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"That's life, Robin."weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) (01/15/89)
In article <744@aiva.ed.ac.uk>, richard@aiva (Richard Tobin) writes: >In lfonts.tex (% File LFONTS - Version of 11 November 1986.) I find the >following comment: > > % This file contains the following kludge: 8pt and 9pt versions > % of \sc call magnifications of amcsc10 instead of cmcsc10. > % Search for KLUDGE to find for both instances. > >What's the idea of this? If indeed it should really be so, where can I >get a copy of amcsc10.mf (there aren't any am fonts on our tape)? Whatever the reason once was, it is no longer necessary, so feel free to change amcsc10 to cmcsc10. You'll still have to generate this font at strange magnifications if you want to use it at 8pt and 9pt sizes. One of these days I may finish the "real" cmcsc8 and cmcsc9 fonts that I have been working on. They will look much better than the reduced versions of cmcsc10 that LaTeX is currently using. Joe Weening Computer Science Dept. weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU Stanford University
leichter@cs.yale.edu (Jerry Leichter) (01/19/89)
In article <744@aiva.ed.ac.uk>, richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes... >In lfonts.tex (% File LFONTS - Version of 11 November 1986.) I find the >following comment: > > % This file contains the following kludge: 8pt and 9pt versions > % of \sc call magnifications of amcsc10 instead of cmcsc10. > % Search for KLUDGE to find for both instances. > >What's the idea of this? If indeed it should really be so, where can I >get a copy of amcsc10.mf (there aren't any am fonts on our tape)? > All it means is that on whatever system LFONTS was developed on, the appro- priate magnifications of CMCSC10 hadn't been generated. LaTeX provides a number of fonts at 8pt and 9pt - the LASY and LCMSS series in particular - which are essentially smaller versions of standard CM fonts which DEK chose not to define. In the case of the caps and small caps fonts, apparently no one was available to do an "LACMCSC" series. Forget about AMSCS10.mf: If you can run Metafont, use CMCSC10.mf instead, and remove the kludge. You may find you already have them on your system. To get 8pt from 10pt, you need about "magstep -1", which would be in a file named something like CMCSC10.DPI250. Similarly, 9pt from 10pt is about "magstep -.5" and would be in CMCS10.DPI274. (The exact names depend on your local naming conventions.) -- Jerry
dao@cs.nott.ac.uk (David Osborne) (01/19/89)
i can't think why the a recent version of lfonts.tex should contain
any reference to a font from the AM series at all. perhaps Leslie Lamport
happened not to have the CM caps-and-small-caps font at the necessary
magnifications. i have changed any references to AM fonts to CM equivalents
in all our TeXware, without any apparent ill effects...
i think AMSTeX was another offender in this, so you might
want to check that too.
dave.
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