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From: leichter@cs.yale.edu (Jerry Leichter)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: LaTeX small caps fonts
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Date: 18 Jan 89 18:08:30 GMT
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In article <744@aiva.ed.ac.uk>, richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes...
 
>In lfonts.tex (% File LFONTS - Version of 11 November 1986.) I find the
>following comment:
> 
>    % This file contains the following kludge: 8pt and 9pt versions
>    % of \sc call magnifications of amcsc10 instead of cmcsc10.
>    % Search for KLUDGE to find for both instances.
> 
>What's the idea of this?  If indeed it should really be so, where can I
>get a copy of amcsc10.mf (there aren't any am fonts on our tape)?
> 

All it means is that on whatever system LFONTS was developed on, the appro-
priate magnifications of CMCSC10 hadn't been generated.  LaTeX provides a
number of fonts at 8pt and 9pt - the LASY and LCMSS series in particular -
which are essentially smaller versions of standard CM fonts which DEK chose
not to define.  In the case of the caps and small caps fonts, apparently no
one was available to do an "LACMCSC" series.

Forget about AMSCS10.mf:  If you can run Metafont, use CMCSC10.mf instead, and
remove the kludge.

You may find you already have them on your system.  To get 8pt from 10pt, you
need about "magstep -1", which would be in a file named something like
CMCSC10.DPI250.  Similarly, 9pt from 10pt is about "magstep -.5" and would be
in CMCS10.DPI274.  (The exact names depend on your local naming conventions.)

							-- Jerry