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From: msd@rrdstrad.nist.gov (Scott Dewey)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: cmex fonts and the new LaTeX font selection scheme
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Date: 26 Jun 91 12:29:14 GMT
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Greetings!

My feeling about the new font selection scheme is: once you've started
using it, you'll wonder how you ever did without it.  Nevertheless, I have
a question for some guru out there.  In LFONTS.NEW why does:

     \textfont 3 = \csname cmex/m/n/10\endcsname
     \scriptfont 3 = \csname cmex/m/n/10\endcsname
     \scriptscriptfont 3 = \csname cmex/m/n/10\endcsname
     \expandafter\let\expandafter\tenex \the\textfont 3

appear rather than the more symmetrical

     \define@mathgroup\mv@normal{0}
                      {cmr}{m}{n}
     \define@mathgroup\mv@normal{1}
                      {cmm}{m}{it}
     \define@mathgroup\mv@normal{2}
                      {cmsy}{m}{n}
     \define@mathgroup\mv@normal{3}
                      {cmex}{m}{n}

     \define@mathgroup\mv@bold{0}
                      {cmr}{bx}{n}
     \define@mathgroup\mv@bold{1}
                      {cmm}{b}{it}
     \define@mathgroup\mv@bold{2}
                      {cmsy}{b}{n}
     \define@mathgroup\mv@bold{3}
                      {cmex}{m}{n}

I think cmex characters look better done at the current font size rather
than always being 10 points.  The old LaTeX did this too.

Thank you.
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