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From: edwards@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (mark edwards)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Rhyme or reason in TeX scales
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Date: 21 Jun 89 14:57:36 GMT
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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 Does anyone have a good explanation how the numbers are derived for the
bitmaped fonts. For instances for for a pxl font with a design size of
10pt at 300dp corresponds to the 1500 directory. But the same font in 
pk format is located at 300, while the font magstep1 is at 360 for pk and
1800 for pxl.

thanks
mark