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+<title>Filenames for TeX fonts</title>
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+<p>
+Node:&nbsp;<a name="Widths">Widths</a>,
+Previous:&nbsp;<a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Variants.html#Variants">Variants</a>,
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+<hr><br>
+</div>
+
+<h3 class="section">Widths</h3>
+
+<p>The <dfn>width</dfn> of a font specifies the compression or expansion of the
+font. Arranged from narrowest to widest (more or less):
+
+<pre class="display"> ultra compressed, extra condensed, compressed, condensed, narrow
+ regular
+ extended, expanded, wide
+ </pre>
+
+ <p>Expansion or compression of fonts is sometimes done automatically (as by
+the PostScript <code>scale</code> operator), and sometimes done by humans. In
+the latter case, the human will also presumably choose a font name which
+includes `Extended' or `Expanded' or `Condensed' or `Narrow' or whatever
+according to their own preferences; the abbreviation can follow along.
+When creating a new synthetically expanded or compressed font for use
+with TeX, e.g., with Afm2tfm or <code>fontinst</code>, use <code>n</code> and
+<code>e</code>.
+
+ <p>Here is the table, from the file <code>width.map</code>. It is organized
+alphabetically by abbreviation. Each line consists of an abbreviation
+and any parts of a PostScript <code>FontName</code> which use that
+abbreviation.
+
+<pre class="example">
+
+ c Condensed Cond
+ e Expanded
+ n Narrow
+ o UltraCondensed
+ p Compressed Compact
+ q ExtraCompressed ExtraCondensed
+ r Normal Medium Regular (usually omitted)
+ t Thin
+ u UltraCompressed
+ v ExtraExpanded more than <tt>Expanded</tt>, less than <tt>Wide</tt>
+ w Wide
+ x Extended Elongated
+ </pre>
+
+ </body></html>
+