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From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Need Help on Creating PostScript Font
Message-ID: <736@fornax.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 06:56:55 GMT
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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For convenience while writing my thesis, I'd like to create a PostScript
variant of the Times font, wherein many of the useless (to me) accented
characters are replaced with useful (to me) squiggly arrows and other
funny symbols.  I have access to a copy of Fontographer at the University,
so that's not a problem.  Question is, how do I obtain an unencrypted
copy of 10pt Times font to work on?  Obviously, I don't want to recreate
the entire character set, just "modify" some of the existing characters.
Is there any way I can do this without violating about 50 copyright laws?
I don't want to distribute this or anything--I just want to circumvent
the irritation caused by switching back and forth between Times and Symbol
font, not to mention that Symbol doesn't have the characters I want anyway.

Boy, I wish that OzTeX was a little more WYSIWYG.

Thanks in advance,
Ken McDonald
mcdonald@cs.sfu.ca

PS In case you're curious, the thesis is in the area of functional
programming, and I need stuff like lambda's, and those funny brackets
they use in denotational semantics, and a bunch of things I made up
on my own.  I figure that if I can't dazzle the thesis committee with
my brilliance, I can at least confuse them with my incoherence, and funny
symbols that have never seen the light of day before are always welcome
for that.