[comp.text.tex] Postscript fonts with dvips & the new font selection scheme

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!

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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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