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Re: Fonts and optical scaling
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: Fonts and optical scaling |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Mar 2006 10:50:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Jeff,
address@hidden (Jeff Kingston) writes:
> I'm aware of the issue but I have never given serious thought
> to adding it. I agree that the @FontDef structure and semantics
> is what needs revising. Before we go too far, are there optically
> scaled fonts available somewhere that are actually worth using?
Among the Free Type 1 fonts, I only know of Computer Modern[0] and Latin
Modern[1] but there may be others as well.
> NB it is possible to work around this issue by including each
> different version of a font as a different family, and changing
> family when you change size. This does not work for relative
> changes of size, of course, but if it is just a question of a
> change for large headings, say, it would do the job.
Right but that is not very convenient.
Ideally, we'd like the following things to work:
{ CM Base 10p } @Font => use the 10p variant
But also:
1.24356f @Font => use the ``best'' variant
Thanks,
Ludovic.
[0] http://www.ams.org/tex/type1-fonts.html
[1] ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/lm.tar.gz
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=uselmfonts