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From: phssra@emory.uucp (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Symbol-Bold for Apple LaserWriter
Keywords: Adobe
Message-ID: <3119@emory.uucp>
Date: 7 Aug 88 21:17:29 GMT
References: <15054@santra.UUCP> <9677@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <19972@cornell.UUCP> <1509@pembina.UUCP>
Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott Robert Anderson)
Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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In article <1509@pembina.UUCP> simon@alberta.UUCP (Simon Tortike) writes:
>In article <15054@santra.UUCP> jmunkki@santra.UUCP (Juri Munkki) writes:
>>The Apple LaserWriter II NT[X] does not print the symbol font in bold type.
>>Is there an Adobe downloadable font for symbol-bold and symbol-italic
>>or are there any other solutions?
>
>Bold greek letters are necessary in mathematical
>typesetting of vectors in Gibb's notation.

Italic symbols are also de rigueur in mathematical typesetting.  I've often
wondered why they weren't included with the LaserWriter, and assumed that they
could be obtained by slanting the roman (as is done for bitmap fonts); but a
recent perusal of the PostScript Language Reference Manual did not reveal any
way to do this.  Any suggestions?

By the way, in Word (and, I assume, in other Mac word processors) you can set
the style for the symbol font to be bold and/or italic; this seems to print out
just fine on the LaserWriter, although it may actually be downloading the
bitmap as someone else suggested.

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