IEEETran

[Robin Fairbairns]

christina thiele writes:
> Oguzhan Cifdaloz writes:
> > Can't find font
> > tirsc (4)
> > No Face Name
> > (Windows offers: 'MS Sans Serif')
> > at byte 1092
>
> Oguzhan, can you contact your IEEE editor and tell him that the
> current class file that's being distributed is invoking a font that is
> NOT part of the standard 35 on laser printers. That is, Times
> SmallCaps is NOT freely available, and the class file should either
> access the TeX sc font, for authors' purposes, or not invoke \sc at
> all.
>
> Unless authors are preparing camera copy, they don't need to have the
> fonts that needed for final production runs.
>
> If authors _are_ being asked to prepare camera copy, then they should
> not be asked to purchase a font in order to be published ;-))

no-one (except y&y tex) is suggesting that a new font should be bought.
almost every other tex system would respond to the absence of a
small-caps font by using a faked version.  one could write a macro that
does the faking (i.e., produces lower-case letters as small capital
letters), but the normal thing is to use a virtual font.

it's that last that most free tex system users would expect, including
mike shell, the author of ieeetran.

> It's quite possible that a style was set up with CM in mind, where \sc
> is standard and normal. But it is NOT the case with commercial fonts
> -- you've gotta buy the neat bits ;-(

the ieeetran class was (iirc) set up with times in mind.

the macro isn't impossibly difficult, just fiddly -- i'll see if i can
get one hammered out in the next few days.  however, you should be aware
that i'm unlikely to be able to post the results of my efforts this week
(since i shall be away from home)

r