- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: Patch for font selection system
- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2001 23:08:10 +0200 (MET DST)
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While fiddling with font styles I noticed an inconsistence in the way some
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fonts are selected in TeXmacs. Some fonts from the Adobe suite use Courier
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and Helvetica as typewriter and sans-serif variants. However, they do not
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provide full access to the set of types provided by Courier and Helvetica.
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For example Times-typewriter text is displayed using Courrier.
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Times-typewriter-italic is displayed using Courrier-italic, but
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Times-typewriter-bold is displayed using the default face while
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Courier-Bold is displayed using its own face.
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This appears structured-typesettingly incorrect to me, so here is a patch
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to fix this (and demonstrate a nice feature of the way font selection is
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handled in TeXmacs). For more information on how this works, select the
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menu item Help/Documentation/Implementation/Fonts in TeXmacs.
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This patch must be applied to the file
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TeXmacs-$VERSION/progs/fonts/adobe-fonts.scm (in the source tree). The
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installed location of this file depends on your ./configure options.
You are absolutely right that things are better after the patch.
Thanks a lot; the patch will be included in the next release.
-Joris-
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Joris van der Hoeven (address@hidden)
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