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Re: mathptm.sty/pslatex.sty
- To: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
- Subject: Re: mathptm.sty/pslatex.sty
- From: Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
- Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 10:45:20 +0200 (MDT)
- Cc: davidc@nag.co.uk, vieth@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de
- In-Reply-To: <4831-Wed01Jul1998085628+0100-s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
- References: <13721.59928.601307.427534@kemmel.cs.uu.nl><4831-Wed01Jul1998085628+0100-s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
>>>>> Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk> (SR) writes:
SR> Piet van Oostrum writes:
>> mathptm and pslatex use:
>>
>> \DeclareSymbolFont{largesymbols}{OMX}{psycm}{m}{n}
>>
>> In omxpsycm.fd the font zpsycmrv is used. This font uses cmex9 which
>> doesn't have a Type1 equivalent in the AMS/BSR set (although there is one
>> in the Bakoma set).
>>
>> To make it easier, especially with the use in pdftex would it be possible
>> to replace this with a scaled cmex10?
SR> two requests for the same thing in one day. its a conspiracy
SR> We'll do it happily IF you can promise there is NO chance of old
SR> documents changing their breaking.
I think it is unreasonable to expect this. But then you can also make the
change unhappily :=)
Mathptm is ugly anyway, so an occasional change in line or pagebreaks
shouldn't harm too much.
--
Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>
URL: http://www.cs.uu.nl/~piet [PGP]
Private email: Piet.van.Oostrum@gironet.nl