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From: chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Possible TeX bug. Help!
Message-ID: <20287@mimsy.umd.edu>
Date: 20 Oct 89 12:27:57 GMT
References: <113600012@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <113600012@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>[LaTeX] apparently looked for `amcsc10' rather than `cmcsc10' for the
>text under table environment.
>Of course, I am using CM fonts exclusively.

No, you are not: you just *think* you are.

First, find `lfonts.tex' (part of the LaTeX format package, it is
read by lplain.tex when building lplain.fmt).  Then search the file
for the word `KLUDGE'.  The very first instance is near the top:

	% This file contains the following kludge: 8pt and 9pt versions
	% of \sc call magnifications of amcsc10 instead of cmcsc10.
	% Search for KLUDGE to find for both instances.

It is easy enough to change the `amcsc10 \@ptscale8' and `amcsc10
\@ptscale9' lines to `cmcsc10 \@ptscale8' and `cmcsc10 \@ptscale9',
although you will then need GF or PK files corresponding to these
downscaled cmcsc10 fonts.  This is still a kludge, since there
really should be a cmcsc8 and cmcsc9---but for that you have to do
much more work.

(No one has yet explained the *purpose* of the kludge in TeXhax,
although the question came up some time ago.)
-- 
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