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From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: What angle do Times-Ital. and Palatino-Ital. slant at?
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Date: 23 Nov 88 22:11:18 GMT
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From article <5571@saturn.ucsc.edu>, by funkstr@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (-=/ Larry Hastings /=-):
" +-In article <1822@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>, James "Kibo" Parry wrote:-
" +----------
" |
" | 	I want to slant Times-Italic and Palatino-Italic backwards by
" |  whatever angle they normally slant at - to produce unslanted "curly"
" ...
"   Do remember that the final arbitrer of everything you do in PostScript is
" whether or not it _looks_ good.  Precision doesn't matter.  If I were you I

For the precision freaks, .afm files have a field describing the slant.
Palatino-Italic.afm has:
ItalicAngle -10.0
and Times-Italic.afm has:
ItalicAngle -15.5

I think the figure given is degrees measured counterclockwise from
the vertical.

		Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu