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From: greg@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Greg O'Rear)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Monospaced symbol font wanted
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Date: 14 Mar 91 20:00:13 GMT
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Specific question first, then general question:

Does anyone know of a monospaced symbol font?  Even if it's Courier, just as
long as the symbols are there (i.e. math symbols, etc.).  The application is
MS-Word for DOS V5.0A, which has no easy way to format equations.  Some of our
users have old documents with multi-line, spaced equations (for HP PCL).  Now
we have PostScript printers, but nothing like eqn for Word.  If they could
get the characters they want and use spaces to line up their equations, they
would be happy.

In general, is there some quick way to convert any PostScript font to mono-
spacing?  PostScript pseudo-code follows:

For this font,
  find the widest character
  make all characters that width (by padding with white space).

Using Word for Windows or Ventura or WordPerfect is not an option, although
an add-in (?) that works with Word V5.0A for DOS would be acceptable.
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Greg O'Rear
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, University of Florida
Address: O'Rear@ise.ufl.edu