[texhax] font metrics

[Jimmy verma]

What about opentype font format? I am much more interested in having a 
comparison with this.

Thanks for responding.


>From: Chris Rowley <C.A.Rowley at open.ac.uk>
>To: Jimmy verma <jim_938 at hotmail.com>
>CC: texhax at tug.org
>Subject: Re: [texhax] font metrics
>Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:12:47 +0100
>
>Jimmy
>
> > some of the font formats they give `the angle in counter clockwise 
>degrees
> > from the vertical'.  Should it be considered as the same thing as our 
>slant
> > parameter in tex.
>
>Not quite, they are related as follows:
>
>PS angle has the opposite sign to the TeX angle;
>
>PS measures the angle using degrees, TeX measures it by its tangent
>(for typical values these two are roughly proportional measures).
>
>Do you need the approximate formula connecting them?
>
>
>chris
>

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