schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab) (02/28/91)
I have discovered that, unlike the other cmr fonts, the font cmr5 has no f-ligatures and that there are `<' and `>' signs in position 60 and 62. Looking at the sources, I found that cmr5.mf has the line `ligs:=1' instead of `ligs:=2' as in cmr6.mf, cmr7.mf, etc. Is this a bug or a feature? Btw, also cmsy5.mf and cmmi5.mf defines ligs to 1 instead to 2 as with the other sizes, although in this case it makes no difference. -- Andreas Schwab schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de Universitaet Dortmund, FRG schwab%ls5@unido.UUCP
dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) (03/01/91)
In article <3067@laura.UUCP>, schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Andreas Schwab) writes: > I have discovered that, unlike the other cmr fonts, the font cmr5 has > no f-ligatures and that there are `<' and `>' signs in position 60 and > 62. Looking at the sources, I found that cmr5.mf has the line > `ligs:=1' instead of `ligs:=2' as in cmr6.mf, cmr7.mf, etc. Is this a > bug or a feature? > Btw, also cmsy5.mf and cmmi5.mf defines ligs to 1 instead to 2 as with > the other sizes, although in this case it makes no difference. It's a feature. cmr is based slavishly on Monotype Modern No. 8A and in that original, the f-ligatures were omitted in the 5pt font to enhance readability at the smaller sizes. -dh --- Don Hosek To retrieve files from ymir via the | dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu mailserver, send a message to | Quixote TeX Consulting mailserv@ymir.claremont.edu with a | 714-625-0147 line saying send [DIRECTORY]FILENAME where DIRECTORY is the FTP directory (sans "anonymous") and FILENAME is the filename, e.g. "send [tex]00readme.txt". There is a list of files in each directory under the name 00files.txt Binary files are not available by this technique.