Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!jg From: jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: cmr12 magstep 0 vs cmr10 magstep 1 Message-ID: Date: 10 May 91 13:52:56 GMT References: Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Lines: 29 In-reply-to: nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu's message of 9 May 91 21:30:46 GMT nbeck@weber.ucsd.edu (Nathaniel Beck) asks > 1. Why should I want to keep cmr10 magstep 1 if I have cmr12 magstep > 0? > > 2. Don Hosek has provided one answer to that question - he prefers > the scaled font for some purposes. > There seems little question that there must be some advantage to the > magstep scheme One advantage of the magstep scheme is that you can print out a copy of your document magnified by some power of 1.2, and (there's a good chance that) you'll already have the fonts around. (One reason you might want to do this is for making camera ready copy for reproduction; you get an effective 360dpi resolution from your 300dpi laser printer, after scaling it back down photographically.) (A more useful scheme for those of us in the old world would be to use the fourth root of 2, which is slightly less than 1.2. This is because A4 paper dimensions are in the proportion 1:root2; I would then have a good chance of being able to print 2 A4 pages at .707 magnification on a single A4 sheet, without doing much Metafonting.) Jeremy *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* | Jeremy Gibbons (jg@prg.oxford.ac.uk) Funky Monkey Multimedia Corp | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*