dvjm@.glasgow.ac.uk (David Murphy) (03/08/91)
I've hacked a fontdef.tex to make Times the default font for text under the new font selection scheme, and made the obvious accompanying changes to \sfdefault (now Helvetica) and \ttdefault (now Courier). This is all fine except (i) The leading is wrong; Times needs a bigger leading. Where does latex set the leading ? I can't find where it's going on to reset things cleanly. (ii) Helvetica 12pt is blatantly incompatible with Times 12pt. My rough guess is Helvetica 10.5pt with Times12pt, but I don't really want to mess around measuring x-heights. Has anyone done the work already ? Finally, a word of support for dvips. I wouldn't have believed it would be this easy to get PS fonts in TeX working under a new driver; dvips is very easy to use: try it! David Murphy, | JANET: dvjm@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Dept. of Computing Science, | UUCP: ..!mcsun!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!dvjm University of Glasgow, | ARPA: dvjm%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Glasgow G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND | Little men with bits of lead are better -- David Murphy, | JANET: dvjm@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Dept. of Computing Science, | UUCP: ..!mcsun!ukc!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!dvjm University of Glasgow, | ARPA: dvjm%cs.glasgow.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Glasgow G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND + Necessity is the mother of strange bedfellows
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (03/11/91)
In article <1991Mar7.183945.17936@cs.glasgow.ac.uk> dvjm@.glasgow.ac.uk (David Murphy) writes:
I've hacked a fontdef.tex to make Times the default font for text
In deference to M & S, I don't think the word `hack' should be used
here. after all that trouble they go to to make it easy to add new
font families, just `written' would do :-}
(i) The leading is wrong; Times needs a bigger leading. Where does
latex set the leading ? I can't find where it's going on to reset
things cleanly.
unless I am going mad, you would have to redefine all the definitions
of \normalsize in eg art10.sty, wouldn't you? the \size command does
the work, but its not set up globally
sebastian
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