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From: capslock@well.sf.ca.us (Allen Crider)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Obliquing fonts
Summary: Example?
Keywords: Oblique, slant, tan
Message-ID: <24968@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 23 May 91 07:04:08 GMT
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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I'm trying to oblique a roman font. I know the pointsize and I know the 
obliquing angle. The only example of obliquing type I have seen is in
the Blue book (Tutorial and Cookbook) in which they give an example of
a font obliqued 30 degrees:
 [12 0 6.93 12 0 0] makefont
 "The 6.93 in our last matrix above is the product of 12xtan30, so our
characters are obliqued by thirty degrees." Says the Blue Book.

I tried doing this in C:
f = 12 * tan(30);

and get 76.864, not 6.93.
Since I wasn't around when they passed out the trigonometry, maybe some
kind soul could guide me to the best way to figure out the correct value
to put in that matrix. Thanks