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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text,gnu.emacs,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Need cm?? fonts to print elisp.dvi file
Keywords: font, elisp.dvi, dvi2ps
Message-ID: <1988Oct19.022646.25018@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 88 06:26:46 GMT
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Reply-To: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
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Yes CM fonts are freely distributable. Get hold of a TeX distribution.
You need both the metrics (tfm) and raster (pk or pxl) files.

The styles of the fonts are explained in a TeXbook appendix. For
instance cmr is roman, cmbx is bold extended, cmsy is symbol, etc. But
forget about substituting them with native fonts. For one thing, the
code positions of some characters differ. You might be able to squeak
by for text fonts but there is no quick substitute for cmsy. The other
thing is you have only the DVI file and the placements (which have
already been computed in the DVI file) are going to differ from the
actual dimensions of the builtin fonts enough to make the document
ugly. If you were starting from the source, you could reformat using
the metrics of the builtin fonts, but...

	Ken