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From: kroe@sbcs.sunysb.edu (KiYun Roe)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: screen fonts for emTeX?
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Date: 8 Dec 90 15:04:09 GMT
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I recently downloaded the excellent emTeX system.  The only thing I
dislike is that when I preview things on the screen, I have to scale
the printer fonts down to see the width of the page.  The scaled fonts
are ugly and difficult to read.  My understanding of the TeX font
system is very sketchy, but I suspect that if I had fonts whose
resolution more closely matched the actual resolution of the screen, I
would not have to scale.  I am wondering now if somebody has made such
a set of screen fonts for emTeX.  The other possibility is to use a set
of screen fonts from a different DVI package, but I am not sure how to
do this or whether it will even work (the documentation mentions
something about the .TFM files needing to match the font files).
Finally, I suppose I could download the MetaFont part of emTeX, but I
don't know how to use MetaFont, and I would think it would take a very
long time to generate the fonts (I only have an 8086-based computer).
I looked in the FAQ list, but this issue does not seem to have been
addressed.  Could someone provide some assistance?
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KiYun Roe					kroe@sbcs.sunysb.edu
Department of Computer Science
SUNY at Stony Brook
Stony Brook, NY  11794-4400			(516) 632-7675