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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: what do I call a variant of a CM font?
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Date: 4 Jun 91 19:58:01 GMT
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tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) (That's me!) wrote:

> As a novice, I can't help much, but is it really right to call it
> something that implies italic, when it's actually slanted?  Seems like
> "sl" should go in there somewhere...

So I went home and looked at Don Knuth's .mf source files and found that
he called it cmssi...  So I guess I can't argue with that (though it
does seem like it really isn't italic, and Knuth seems to make a big
point in the TeXBook about the difference between italic and slanted...)