dfm@sagepub.UUCP (David F. McCune) (09/25/89)
I use Ventura Publisher and a Postscript printer to typeset books.
One customer has given me a manuscript that calls for boldface
mathematical symbols and Greek letters. The "Symbol" font that
is included in the standard 35 resident Postscript fonts does not
come in boldface (or italic). Judging from the Adobe catalog, there
is no math typeface available from Adobe in bold and italic. Does
anyone know of any other Postscript typeface that I can buy? Or is
there another way to skin this cat? Thanks!
David
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domain: dfm@sagepub.com uucp: ...uunet!sagepub!dfmcramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) (09/27/89)
In article <1349@sagepub.UUCP>, dfm@sagepub.UUCP (David F. McCune) writes: > I use Ventura Publisher and a Postscript printer to typeset books. > One customer has given me a manuscript that calls for boldface > mathematical symbols and Greek letters. The "Symbol" font that > is included in the standard 35 resident Postscript fonts does not > come in boldface (or italic). Judging from the Adobe catalog, there > is no math typeface available from Adobe in bold and italic. Does > anyone know of any other Postscript typeface that I can buy? Or is > there another way to skin this cat? Thanks! > > David McCune, Sage Publications, Inc. Here's an incredibly savage way of getting ersatz bold, italic, and bold italic 10 point Symbol: /S10-Bold {dup /Symbol findfont 1000 scalefont setfont 0 0 moveto show 30 0 moveto show} bind def /S10-Italic{/Symbol findfont [1000 0 267.95 1000 0 0] makefont setfont 0 0 moveto show} bind def /S10-BoldItalic{dup /Symbol findfont [1000 0 267.95 1000 0 0] makefont setfont 0 0 moveto show 30 0 moveto show} bind def Hold your stomach -- they aren't pleasant, and depending on the width of the character, you may have problems with some wide characters going off the edge of the bounding box. -- Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer What shall it be today? Watch Three's Company? Or unify the field theory? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!
rob@NRC.COM (Rob Pawsner) (09/27/89)
For non-Adobe math and symbol laser fonts, try the LaserTECH set from: Linguist's Software 925 Hindley Lane Edmonds WA 98020 (206) 775-1130
perry@ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) (09/29/89)
In article <1349@sagepub.UUCP> dfm@sagepub.UUCP (David F. McCune) writes: > One customer [needs] boldface mathematical symbols and Greek letters. > The "Symbol" font ... does not come in boldface (or italic). You can get somewhat the effect of bold by expanding the font in the X direction. Instead of italic, you might try oblique. Such variants can be created by twiddling the FontMatrix.