Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!sot-ecs!spqr From: spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: erratic spacing from from postscript fonts Message-ID: Date: 22 Jan 91 10:34:56 GMT References: <51014@cornell.UUCP> Sender: news@ecs.soton.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Southampton University Computer Science Lines: 20 In-reply-to: vavasis@afi.cs.cornell.edu's message of 22 Jan 91 00:15:04 GMT In article <51014@cornell.UUCP> vavasis@afi.cs.cornell.edu (Stephen Vavasis) writes: (a) WHAT IS CAUSING ERRATIC SPACING? The widths of the native characters according postscript is slightly different from the width that TeX has in mind (this is my hypothesis). I would not care to get into the details of this; but I do think you would be well-advised to change your dvi2ps if its the `traditional' Unix one and use Rokicki's dvips. He has taken a lot of care to sort out issues like this; for instance, dvips reads the tfm file for a font and tells the printer about some character metrics explicitly (some guru will tell me this is all wrong, but you know what I mean). You really should not be having that mismatch between maths and subscripts! Sebastian -- Sebastian Rahtz S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET) Computer Science S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet) Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)