Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!educ-isis!teexdwu From: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: Is there a manuscript.sty? Message-ID: <1991Jun29.215842.25518@ioe.lon.ac.uk> Date: 29 Jun 91 21:58:42 GMT References: <1991Jun27.112938.21202@infoserver.th-darmstadt.de> <4653@undis.cs.chalmers.se> Reply-To: teexdwu@ioe.lon.ac.uk (DOMINIK WUJASTYK) Organization: Institute of Education University of London Lines: 37 In article <4653@undis.cs.chalmers.se> jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se (Alan Jeffrey) writes: > >On the subject of an ms.sty, the main problem is getting the fonts >together. As DEK pointed out, if you want to take things like >underlining seriously, you need a separate font for it, especially >when you start using full markup and need things like wavy-underlining >and triple-underlining. There's also real headaches with mathematics, >which you don't want to know about. But as a few examples: > > Let $a$ be a pudding should appear as Let _a_ be a pudding > Let $x$ be a pudding should appear as Let x be a pudding > Then $f(a)$ is a box should appear as Then f(a) is a box > Then $fa$ is a box should appear as Then _fa_ is a box > >Obviously, this is completely impossible to generate by machine, so >you're better off making do with every bit of mathematics underlined. >Which isn't what the compositor is used to seeing, and therefore takes >more time, and therefore takes more money. > >One of these days, unless anyone beats me to it (please do) I'll get >round to sticking together a full family of cmtt fonts with various >sorts of underlining, and put together a ms.sty to go with it. But >it'll be a lot of work, and it won't get done until next year >sometime. Most of this has been done already, well, by Don Hosek. See his cmpica fonts, on ymir. These are variants of cmtt, in versions that include having each character underlined, and again, having each character having an under-squiggle (i.e., bold markup), and the right ligatures for quote marks and hyphens. So you can type using ordinary TeX conventions (\it, \bf, '', ---, etc.) and if you define \it to be cmpicaunderlined (I forget it's real name) etc., the outcome is almost exactly like a typed and marked-up MS. Math is another ball game. Dominik