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From: simpson@trwarcadia.uucp (Scott Simpson)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LATEX reg. tm. symbol/WANT
Summary: Registered Trademark symbol wanted
Keywords: registered trademark, METAFONT
Message-ID: <5407@wiley.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 23:39:46 GMT
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In article <2185@randvax.UUCP> urban@rand-unix.UUCP (Mike Urban) writes:
>In article <3581@cbnewsm.ATT.COM>tla@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (terry.l.anderson) writes:
>>I agree with Chris Torek that the ideal solution to a registered
>>trademark symbol is to create one with metafont.  But since I have not
>>found one...
>In Scott Simpson's quicspool software for the QMS printer (in the
>TeXdevices directory of the Unix TeX distribution), he has MF sources
>for fonts providing all the Troff characters (the idea being
>to be able to use the same driver software and fonts for ditroff
>and TeX).

Actually, there are different drivers for otroff, ditroff and TeX since
they produce different output formats.  The troff fonts I created include
all the troff characters (including hands) and the characters are in the
same order as the Berkeley font catalog.  Both my otroff and ditroff drivers
use the fonts created from my hacked METAFONT sources, but my TeX driver
uses standard TeX fonts.  Knuth didn't leave me any space to add troff
characters to TeX fonts.

>I presume that `cmmf' is in effect here.

It is.  I stole as much as I could from the TeX fonts and created the 
other characters I needed.  As I recall, the registered trademark symbol
looks OK but the fractions (i.e., 1/4, 3/4) look like hell.  I'm not a 
great METAFONTer.
	Scott Simpson
	TRW Space and Defense Sector
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