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From: mackay@CS.WASHINGTON.EDU (Pierre MacKay)
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Subject: cmex10 font, LaTeX line fonts scaling problem
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Date: 7 Mar 91 00:56:56 GMT
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The Middle East Studies Association Bulletin uses \magstep1 followed
by reduction for exactly the reason that Michael Barr gives.  A few
issues were produced several years ago on one of the three Alphatypes
that ran TeX in North America, but when that broke, the Laser-Writer
became the final output device.  It works fine.  This is what global
magnification is for.  An effective resolution of 360 dpi is superior
to 300dpi by a quite surprising degree.  I think it is partly because
some of the fuzz at the edge of the dots gets reduced by the camera to
the point that disappears in the printing process.
 
At low resolutions there may be some slight non-linear effects
attendant on the use of magsteps in METAFONT, which will be understood
by anyone who reads the chapter Discreteness and Discretion in the
METAFONTbook, but they should not seriously change the appearance of
the page.  The would be very unlikely to distort the proportions of
cmex in any noticeable way,
 
 
 
 
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