Re: italic corrections on synthesized slanted lowercase Greek letters on the pdf device (was: Using -Tpdf rather than -Tps and then ps2pdf)

[Deri]

On Wednesday, 14 June 2023 00:33:16 BST G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> At 2023-06-13T17:15:56-0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> > I don't think we're _quite_ there, though; we need to contrive italic
> > corrections too, which seems like it would be harder without a real
> > font,[1] since they vary by glyph.  See the attachments.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > [1] Well, maybe not.  We can hand roll 24 italic corrections and pass
> > 
> >     them as second arguments to this `pdf:SS` macro.  It can
> >     interpolate them as \h'' horizontal motions after interpolating
> >     `\$1`.  Might be a good idea to express the corrections in ems so
> >     they'll scale on their own.
> 
> I undertook to do this.  Lacking experience as a real typographer, I did
> things by eyeballing them with sample inputs that seemed likely
> provocative of glyph collisions in mathematical typesetting, and by
> limiting myself to adjustments in increments of 1/12th em.
> 
> Here is the result.  Really trying to not forget the attachments this
> time.
> 
> Regards,
> Branden

This is using a real font, deleted pdf:SS.

Cheers

Deri

oversized-greek.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document