From e0c6872cf40896c7be36b11dcc744620f10adf1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Norbert Preining Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 13:46:59 +0900 Subject: Initial commit --- info/digests/texline/no9/lino.tex | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+) create mode 100644 info/digests/texline/no9/lino.tex (limited to 'info/digests/texline/no9/lino.tex') diff --git a/info/digests/texline/no9/lino.tex b/info/digests/texline/no9/lino.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..4d0fb973cd --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/texline/no9/lino.tex @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +\vsize108pt +\article{How well do you know your CM fonts?} +I am sometimes surprised at the uncritical way in which people use +Computer Modern fonts, especially on 300\,dpi laser printers. +There are two problems: +{\vadjust{\vfill\eject}} +\bi CM is a rather lightweight face, and +it seems to break up quite quickly at low resolution; +\bi most +people use a small set of fonts, magnifying them on demand, rather than +having a correct font for every point size needed. + +\vfill\eject +\noindent The reason often +quoted for the latter is the disc space that fonts take up, but we +should recall that only extra {\tt tfm} files are needed, as the {\tt pk} (or +{\tt pxl} or {\tt gf} font files will differ little in size between cmr10 +magnified 3 times, and cmr17. + +In an effort to show the differences between the `correct' font +sizes and the magnified fonts, I have +generated a set of tables designed to show a \LaTeX\ user what he or +she can expect to see at all the supported sizes and font styles; a +comparison between the first table (page 33), generated with the default +fonts (frequent magnifications), and the second (% +this page), using fonts generated at the right design sizes, should demonstrate +even to the casual eye that the difference is considerable. + +It is instructive to compare these Computer Modern +tables with the third table (page 35), generated using \PS\ fonts -- the +reader is left to decide which of the three he/she finds preferable. + + +The `true-sized' \LaTeX\ fonts can be accessed by building a new +\LaTeX\ with a revised `lfonts.tex' +based on fonts using John Sauter's scripts a time-consuming, but +interesting, exercise. The Aston archive contains\nl +{\tt[tex-archive.fonts.sauter]}\nl +to enable the `true-size' fonts to be built, +and\nl +{\tt [tex-archive.latex.contrib]lfonts.moretrue} +\vfill\eject\noindent +to allow \LaTeX\ to be rebuilt to take advantage of them. + +It had been intended to print these tables with a comparative set at +1270\,dpi printed on a phototypesetter; unfortunately, experiments so +far have simply produced VM errors on the \PS\ interpreter on the Linotron +300. If the charts ever appear, they will be made available to \TeXline. +\author{\sl Sebastian Rahtz} +\vfill\eject +%Computer Science +%University +%Southampton S09 5NH + +%spqr@uk.ac.soton.ecs -- cgit v1.2.3