Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!snorkelwacker!usc!jarthur!hmcvax.claremont.edu From: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu (Hosek, Donald A.) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Hard-to-find fonts Message-ID: <8036@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> Date: 5 Aug 90 21:09:20 GMT References: <169@ub.d.umn.edu> Sender: news@jarthur.Claremont.EDU Reply-To: dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu Organization: Harvey Mudd College Lines: 41 ><3. PostScript equivalents of cmmi and cmsy that are visually compatible > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >I should add cmex to this list. Also, to avoid confusion, I should >point out that the letters a..z and A..Z in Times-Italic are perfectly >good substitutes for the letters in cmmi, but I'm looking for the other >symbols in the cmmi font. Take a close look at {\it a\/} versus $a$ in Computer Modern and note the difference. It is noticable and when one is typesetting theorems in italic type, it becomes rather important. The text italic letters are perhaps adequate substitutes, but I would hesitate to say that they're "perfectly good substitutes." >< with the Times family. (What I want here is to be able to create a >< document where the main text is Times Roman and everything else is >< aesthetically compatible with it. The Computer Modern family of >< fonts nauseates me.) The current situation on this front is: (1) The AMS has created a set of fonts for use with the APS Times for their journals. This is described in TUGboat 10#4 (the conference proceedings issue). They might work with other versions of Times. For more information write to Regina Girouard . (2) Someone in Europe created a PostScript font called MoreMath which fills in some of the gaps left by the PS Symbol font. I don't have a name or address for this. Perhaps someone who has the information from the Karlsruhe conference can post this. (3) TeXplorators (the people who brought us LAmSTeX) have Times math italic, symbol and math extension fonts based on the BitStream Times. Again, I don't have an address handy. -dh --- Don Hosek TeX, LaTeX, and Metafont Consulting and dhosek@ymir.claremont.edu production work. Free Estimates. dhosek@ymir.bitnet uunet!jarthur!ymir Phone: 714-625-0147