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Re: 8.3 latex packages, dvips, metafonts
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Wed May 19 23:18:18 1999
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jamie Morris <jemorris@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU, bug-template@MIT.EDU
From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Date: 19 May 1999 23:18:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Wed, 19 May 1999 16:43:30 -0400"
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > The "540" is because Jamie used \small. You don't see this lossage
> > with newtex because it contains a more useful set of prebuilt fonts.
> > (It also has MakeTeXPK symlinked to /bin/false so that it will fail
> > quickly for missing fonts.)
>
> Thanks. I've submitted a patch to make MakeTeXPK fail silently, which
> gets us back to the 8.2 behavior.
You're welcome. Yay. :-)
> I'd also like to add to the list of useful font resolutions. I'm a
> little puzzled about the fonts in the newtex locker; for instance,
> cmss10 is built at {300,600,657,720,864}, but cmcsc10 is built at
That's because Knuth, in his infinite wisdom, defined cmcsc at five
sizes (8pt, 9pt, 10pt, 12pt, and 17pt), each with slightly different
shapes to match his aesthetic notions, but cmcsc only at 10pt. As a
result, cmcsc10 needs to be scaled to resolutions cmss10 normally
wouldn't be scaled to, as one of the other cmssNs would be used
instead.
> {300,360,420,480,540,600,657,720,864,1037,1244,1493,1792,2150}. At
> any rate, the cmcsc10 sizes look like the maximal set; I will look at
That's roughly correct. (The exceptions are the fonts that aren't
provided at 10pt for some reason, but those are rare and I don't know
offhand if the release includes any.)
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Aaron M. Ucko, KB1CJC <amu@mit.edu> (finger amu@monk.mit.edu)
