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Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why.
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Tadziu Hoffmann |
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Re: [Groff] poll: which macro packages are in common use / and why. |
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Mon, 4 Oct 2004 13:46:09 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
> Very nice! I have just one thing to complain: The used Courier font
> size is too small for the selected base font.
You think so? Yes, the letters *are* slighly shorter, but then
Courier-Bold is by design a very "massive" font, and I'd guess
both fonts are what their designers assumed appropriate for a
10-point font. Anyway, I hadn't attempted to change this since
it didn't appear visually distracting to me. On the contrary,
I would have thought that setting Courier larger would make
it appear too obtrusive. But maybe you're right; maybe not.
See file test-1.pdf.
By the way, is there any simple way to achieve what you suggested
(i.e., set a particular font always a fraction larger or smaller
than the other fonts)? I didn't see any, meaning that I would
have to go through all macros and, depending on the current font
and the new font, also consider a size change wherever a font
change is requested. (But then again, that's the reason for
writing a macro package: to move the complexities and details,
no matter how finicky, away from the actual manuscript.)
Anyway, in this particular case I went the quick and dirty way
of making a copy of Courier-Bold with a changed FontMatrix,
generated a new metrics file from the modified font (luckily
we don't have to worry about kerning pairs etc. in a monospaced
font), and then used this modified font in the new file.
But I don't see how one could do this as easily using, for
example, the PCL device.
> And where can we find the macros?
They're in the same directory.
> BTW, since you talk about `H II regions', you must have written your
> thesis in astrophysics, right?
That's right -- but on hot stars, not H II regions.