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From: jmr@nada.kth.se (Jan Michael Rynning)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: TeX vs. PS (.tfm files)
Message-ID: <1231@draken.nada.kth.se>
Date: 1 Jul 89 21:50:55 GMT
References: <8634@cadnetix.COM> <1989Jun28.175531.8966@cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: jmr@nada.kth.se (Jan Michael Rynning)
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In article <1989Jun28.175531.8966@cs.rochester.edu> ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap) writes:
>Instead, rewrite them as
>
>	\font\sf9=Helvetica scaled 900

1. TeX only accepts letters in symbols, not digits, so trying to use "sf9"
   as the TeX symbol that refers to the font will result in TeX using the
   symbol "sf", and screwing up trying to find the font "9=Helvetica".

2. Some implementations use a 10pt default size for PostScript fonts, but
   most of those that I have seen use a 1pt (the PostScript default size).
   On the latter, asking for "scaled 900" will of course give you a 0.9pt
   size font, which is som small that it is hardly visible.

The following, syntactically correct, definition should give you a 9pt size
Helvetica on both kinds of implementations:

\font\ninesf=Helvetica at 9pt

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