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From: joel@techunix.BITNET (Yossi (Joel) Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Calligraphic LaTeX ?!
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Date: 2 Jun 90 19:38:28 GMT
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In article <13530001@hpccc.HP.COM> gampell@hpccc.HP.COM (David J. Gampell) write
s:
>I am looking for the impossible:  calligraphic fonts for LaTeX.  Any tips?
>
>Thanks in advance

I've considered doing this; but I wonder how the kerning (if I have my
terms straight) would work.  When "WA" is typeset, the 'W' actually
ends up partially "over" the 'A.'  Is this an automatic process?  If I
make a caligraphic 'A' that looks like, say:

 ____________________
/                   /\
                   /  \
                  /    \
                 /======\
                /        \
               /          \
              /            \

and put it after a sentence that ends with 'i,' so that I had "i.  A"
would I automatically get:

 ____________________
/                   /\
                   /  \
   o              /    \
                 /======\
   |            /        \
   |           /          \
   | o        /            \


or do I have to specify each case of kerning separately?

-Joel
(joel@techunix.technion.ac.il -or- joel@techunix.BITNET)


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