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From: rsm@amethyst.ma.arizona.edu (Robert Maier)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: A plain.tex that uses native LaserWriter fonts?
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Date: 3 Sep 88 08:42:23 GMT
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Organization: Dept. of Math., Univ. of Arizona; Tucson, AZ  85721
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At this site we can access native LaserWriter fonts from within TeX.
We print our DVI files with dvi2ps, and our version of dvi2ps (due to
Stephan Bechtolsheim of Purdue) supports the LaserWriter fonts.  For
example, Times-Roman is referred to within TeX as PS-Times-Roman.

Unfortunately we can't prepare entire TeX documents with the
LaserWriter fonts.  The best we can do is to use them (e.g.,
Times-Roman, Times-Italic, Helvetica) for text, and cmmi (Knuth's
Computer Modern Math Italic) for math mode.

This has the disadvantage that though we can scale the text
arbitrarily (no \magstep nonsense), we're confined to only a few
choices of magnification for the equations.

An obvious solution would be to rewrite plain.tex to use LaserWriter
fonts exclusively, in particular for math mode.  Has anyone done this?
It doesn't look like too difficult a job, just tedious.

Please reply by mail as I don't usually read this group; I'll
summarize to the net.  Thanks in advance.

--Robert.

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