jmr@nada.kth.se (Jan Michael Rynning) (11/29/89)
1) Are there any Greek boldface, italic, and boldface italic PostScript
fonts available, designed to match Times Roman?
2) Why are the characters in the Symbol font just similar to the ones in
the Times Roman font, and not identical to them? (At least, that's
the way things are on our Apple LaserWriter II NTX running PostScript
version 47.0.) The following program illustrates the differences.
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%!
/fontsize 30 def
/times /Times-Roman findfont fontsize scalefont def
/symbol /Symbol findfont fontsize scalefont def
/Hheight gsave times setfont newpath 0 0 moveto (H) false charpath flattenpath
pathbbox 4 1 roll pop pop pop grestore def
/line {gsave exec grestore 0 fontsize neg rmoveto} def
/diff {
{timestext ( (Times Roman)) show} line
{symboltext times setfont ( (Symbol)) show} line
{gsave timestext ( (Times Roman minus Symbol)) show grestore 1 setgray
symboltext} line
{gsave symboltext times setfont ( (Symbol minus Times Roman)) show grestore
1 setgray timestext} line
} def
90 rotate 72 -72 Hheight sub moveto
/timestext {times setfont (ABEHIKMNOPTXYZ) show} def
/symboltext {symbol setfont (ABEHIKMNORTCUZ) show} def
diff
{} line
/timestext {times setfont (!#%&()*+,.0123456789:;<=>?) show} def
/symboltext {symbol setfont (!#%&()*+,.0123456789:;<=>?) show} def
diff
showpage
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Jan Michael Rynning, jmr@nada.kth.se
Department of Numerical Analysis If you can't fully handle domains:
and Computing Science, ARPA: jmr%nada.kth.se@uunet.uu.net
Royal Institute of Technology, UUCP: {uunet,mcvax,...}!nada.kth.se!jmr
S-100 44 Stockholm, BITNET: jmr@sekth
Sweden. Phone: +46-8-7906288woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) (11/29/89)
In article <2424@draken.nada.kth.se>, jmr@nada.kth.se (Jan Michael Rynning) writes: > 1) Are there any Greek boldface, italic, and boldface italic PostScript > fonts available, designed to match Times Roman? > > 2) Why are the characters in the Symbol font just similar to the ones in > the Times Roman font, and not identical to them? (At least, that's > the way things are on our Apple LaserWriter II NTX running PostScript > version 47.0.) The following program illustrates the differences. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > %! > /fontsize 30 def > /times /Times-Roman findfont fontsize scalefont def > /symbol /Symbol findfont fontsize scalefont def > /Hheight gsave times setfont newpath 0 0 moveto (H) false charpath flattenpath > pathbbox 4 1 roll pop pop pop grestore def > /line {gsave exec grestore 0 fontsize neg rmoveto} def > /diff { > {timestext ( (Times Roman)) show} line > {symboltext times setfont ( (Symbol)) show} line > {gsave timestext ( (Times Roman minus Symbol)) show grestore 1 setgray > symboltext} line > {gsave symboltext times setfont ( (Symbol minus Times Roman)) show grestore > 1 setgray timestext} line > } def > > 90 rotate 72 -72 Hheight sub moveto > /timestext {times setfont (ABEHIKMNOPTXYZ) show} def > /symboltext {symbol setfont (ABEHIKMNORTCUZ) show} def > diff > {} line > /timestext {times setfont (!#%&()*+,.0123456789:;<=>?) show} def > /symboltext {symbol setfont (!#%&()*+,.0123456789:;<=>?) show} def > diff > > showpage > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Jan Michael Rynning, jmr@nada.kth.se > Department of Numerical Analysis If you can't fully handle domains: > and Computing Science, ARPA: jmr%nada.kth.se@uunet.uu.net > Royal Institute of Technology, UUCP: {uunet,mcvax,...}!nada.kth.se!jmr > S-100 44 Stockholm, BITNET: jmr@sekth > Sweden. Phone: +46-8-7906288 You can create these fairly easily. What you have to do is create a new font. The Blue book gives some examples. The trick is to manipulate the scaling entry for the base font. When you create the new font, say GreekItalic you compute the angle to slant the font, like the examples in the red and blue books (the Alice Carrol example). Change the fontmatrix entry in the font dictionary to incorporate the change. Register the font, and it wil be an obliqued Greek Font. By scaling the characters a bit wider, you can get a bold effect as well.. It is about the best you can do.... Cheers Woody