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From: nowlin@gramian.harvard.edu (Bill Nowlin)
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Subject: Do symbol fonts exist?
Summary: I know about the 25 and 30 point fonts; how about a reasonable size?
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Date: 1 Jun 89 19:08:42 GMT
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As a graduate student in applied math, I find myself dealing a lot with
alphas and betas.  As a sometimes-programmer for the lab, I find myself
wanting to create programs that display these greek symbols.

I see that the standard public domain release of X11R3 has 2 greek fonts,
size 25pt and 30pt.  Ecch.  How about 9 ~ 14pt?

There are two ways I can be happy:

1) I find copies of fonts or am given them.
2) I create my own fonts using some font editor that I don't yet have.

Either way I think I'll have to use the fonts in some brute force manner
directly from my program, since I can't count on their existence on some
other system.  I have done something like that already to print rotated
text.  But that begs another question: What is the font file storage
format?

Any help will fetch a fair amount of genuflecting on my part!
Thanks in advance:

Bill Nowlin
Harvard Robotic Lab
nowlin@gramian.harvard.edu