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From: dvjm@.glasgow.ac.uk (David Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Postscript fonts with dvips & the new font selection scheme
Message-ID: <1991Mar7.183945.17936@cs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Mar 91 18:39:45 GMT
Sender: dvjm@cs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Murphy)
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I've hacked a fontdef.tex to make Times the default font for text under
the new font selection scheme, and made the obvious accompanying changes
to \sfdefault (now Helvetica) and \ttdefault (now Courier). This is all
fine except

	(i) The leading is wrong; Times needs a bigger leading. Where does 
            latex set the leading ? I can't find where it's going on to reset 
            things cleanly.

       (ii) Helvetica 12pt is blatantly incompatible with Times 12pt. My
            rough guess is Helvetica 10.5pt with Times12pt, but I don't
            really want to mess around measuring x-heights. Has anyone done
            the work already ?

Finally, a word of support for dvips. I wouldn't have believed it would be
this easy to get PS fonts in TeX working under a new driver; dvips is very
easy to use: try it!

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