Re: design size in DVI

["Berthold K.P. Horn" <bkph@ai.mit.edu>]

At 05:35 PM 99/03/26 -0700, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

>Yes, certainly, I found 27 references to it in my own DVI driver family
>code, and here is a sample snippet of how it is used:

Interestingly, DVIPSONE and DVIWIndo have no reference to design size, 
simple reading and discarding the word.  Must have something to do 
with working with scalable outline fonts...

But TeX uses it (for example to know what size you want when you don't
explicitly specify a size for a font).

Regards, Berthold.


Berthold K.P. Horn		mailto:bkph@ai.mit.edu