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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Looking for Small Sans Serif Font (cmss6)
Message-ID: <1991May28.201140.1@euler.claremont.edu>
Date: 29 May 91 03:11:40 GMT
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In article <1390002@hparc0.HP.COM>, dak@hparc0.HP.COM (Dave Kruger) writes:
 
> I'm looking for a six-point sans serif font.  I've looked in appropriate places
> like ymir, to no avail.  I've even tried generating a six-point version of cmss
> with John Sauter's CM font resizing kit, but TeX mumbled something about bad or
> corrupt TFM files, and reported that font metric information was not loadable.


Hmm, it worked fine for me. Here is the MF file I used:

% This is cmss6.mf as of 28-May-1991
design_size:=6;
input b-cmss;

-dh

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