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From: smith@zeus.harvard.edu (Steven Smith)
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Subject: Re: (non)-guru words on maths extension fonts
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Date: 26 Jun 91 19:45:49 GMT
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In-reply-to: bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu's message of 24 Jun 91 12:40:58 GMT

In article <16629@life.ai.mit.edu> bkph@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn) writes:

> P.S. You may know that Ralph Youngen of AMS made up a math italic font using
> a Times Roman italic (reported in TUGboat).  That is the only successful
> effort of getting non-CM math fonts into TeX that I am aware off so far.

Is this math italic font publicly available?  If so, where can one
find it.  Also, does there exist a virtual font similar to the font
cmsy using, say, the "raw" PostScript font rpsyr?  By the way, the
reason that the characters within cmex hang below the baseline is
given in Vol. E of Computers and Typesetting.  (I don't wish to be coy
by not revealing the reason here; I simply can't recall the rationale.)

Steven Smith