xiaofei@acsu.buffalo.edu (Xiaofei Wang) (04/21/91)
[1]
Any TeXperts have considered using PostScript fonts in math?
According to TeXBook
``Any of these things [\alpha, \over ?, etc.]
can be redefined, in order to adapt TeX to other mathmatical styles
and/or to other fonts'' TeXBook, page 152.
I have tried, but I am afraid that what I did was not right or someone
has done it already. [I don't see such discussion on the net though]
\font\TimesRomanFourty=ptmr at 40pt
\font\TimesRomanFourTwentyEight=ptmr at 28pt
\font\SymbolFourty=psyr at 40pt
% My ghostscript for msdos does not have good resolution. That is why I
% use large fonts.
\def\Pspartial{\hbox{\SymbolFourty \char'266}}
\def\Psheartsuit{\hbox{\SymbolFourty \char'251}}
\def\Psnabla{\hbox{\SymbolFourty \char'321}}
\def\Psalpha{\hbox{\SymbolFourty \char'141}} % do it right
$$
\textfont1=\TimesRomanFourty \scriptfont1=\TimesRomanFourTwentyEight
{\hbox{$\textfont1=\SymbolFourty a b $}} % right result wrong way
m_t m^a
\Pspartial x \Psheartsuit \Psnabla \Psalpha
$$
[2]
Also I have questions regarding Postscript font tables --
For example, Helvetica-Bold font table generated through TeX
[testfont.tex] does not match any of the tables in the
New ``Red Book'', page 596. ?
[The Symbol font does match.]
[3]
I think all people should agree that a TeX file is portable from one
operating system to another, but it is not. I can see the following
convention used, take Times-Roman for example --
unix: Times-Roman
vms : psmtimr
my msdos: ptmr [Consistent with the paper ``Filenames for fonts'' by Karl Berry
published on TUGBoat Vol. 11, number 4, page 512-519 (1990).
The paper is ftp'able from ftp.cs.umb.edu:./pub/tex/fontname]
* My msdos running emTeX and dvips of Tom Rokicki.
I am confused. ANy one from TeX standard committee would care to comment?
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