rsm@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (Robert Maier) (09/03/88)
At this site we can access native LaserWriter fonts from within TeX.
We print our DVI files with dvi2ps, and our version of dvi2ps (due to
Stephan Bechtolsheim of Purdue) supports the LaserWriter fonts. For
example, Times-Roman is referred to within TeX as PS-Times-Roman.
Unfortunately we can't prepare entire TeX documents with the
LaserWriter fonts. The best we can do is to use them (e.g.,
Times-Roman, Times-Italic, Helvetica) for text, and cmmi (Knuth's
Computer Modern Math Italic) for math mode.
This has the disadvantage that though we can scale the text
arbitrarily (no \magstep nonsense), we're confined to only a few
choices of magnification for the equations.
An obvious solution would be to rewrite plain.tex to use LaserWriter
fonts exclusively, in particular for math mode. Has anyone done this?
It doesn't look like too difficult a job, just tedious.
Please reply by mail as I don't usually read this group; I'll
summarize to the net. Thanks in advance.
--Robert.
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Tucson, AZ 85721 | Phone: +1 602 621 6893 / +1 602 621 2617langdon@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Bruce Langdon) (09/07/88)
In article <819@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu>, rsm@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (Robert Maier) writes: > At this site we can access native LaserWriter fonts from within TeX. > Unfortunately we can't prepare entire TeX documents with the > LaserWriter fonts. The best we can do is to use them (e.g., > Times-Roman, Times-Italic, Helvetica) for text, and cmmi for math mode. > > This has the disadvantage that .. we're confined to only a few > choices of magnification for the equations. The reason cmmi and other math stuff exists in TeX is that the math symbols and other spare parts are used very differently than text characters are used in text. I looked into substituting PS characters and found PS didn't have all the needed marks. So it didn't matter that I probably would have found it impractical to create appropriate tfm files. I regularly substitute PS for text in TeX and LaTeX. We don't seem to have trouble printing in arbitrary magnifications with ArborText's dvips.