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Re: Patch for font selection system


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  • 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)


> While fiddling with font styles I noticed an inconsistence in the way some
> fonts are selected in TeXmacs. Some fonts from the Adobe suite use Courier
> and Helvetica as typewriter and sans-serif variants. However, they do not
> provide full access to the set of types provided by Courier and Helvetica.
>
> For example Times-typewriter text is displayed using Courrier.
> Times-typewriter-italic is displayed using Courrier-italic, but
> Times-typewriter-bold is displayed using the default face while
> Courier-Bold is displayed using its own face.
>
> This appears structured-typesettingly incorrect to me, so here is a patch
> to fix this (and demonstrate a nice feature of the way font selection is
> handled in TeXmacs). For more information on how this works, select the
> menu item Help/Documentation/Implementation/Fonts in TeXmacs.
>
> This patch must be applied to the file
> TeXmacs-$VERSION/progs/fonts/adobe-fonts.scm (in the source tree). The
> 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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