[OS X TeX] A heretic thought
George Gratzer
gratzer at me.com
Sun Aug 10 21:07:44 CEST 2014
Hi Ross,
But if it is plain text, not much of a logo. I tried a chapter title, looked surprisingly good upright.
George
On Aug 10, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> On 11/08/2014, at 4:02, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>
>> But there is a price to pay...
>>
>> The book is typeset in Times, and it seems that the Times kerning tables
>> do not extend to lower case, upper case pairs.
>>
>> So in LaTeX, you have to kern aT and eX manually.
>>
>> Then you italicize it, and it is all wrong.
>
> Why italicize it?
> It is a logo, and should be used just like a graphic, always in the same font and style.
> By all means change the size to match your chosen font height, but no more.
>
> To do it differently is making extra work for yourself, with no guarantee of getting a pleasing or acceptable result.
>
>> So you have to kern aT and eX manually again for italics!
>>
>> And then there is bold...
>
> There should be no change, neither for italics nor bold, IMHO.
>
>
>>
>> Are there specialized kern tables for Times?
>>
>> GG
>>
>>
>> On Aug 5, 2014, at 1:13 PM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I redid the macros, typeset the book. It looks so neat!
>>>
>>> GG
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ross
>
>
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