IEEETran

[Oguzhan Cifdaloz]

I think my best bet is to purchase it because I only have a few days left.
Can someone tell me where I should buy it and what the product is called?

Thank you

Oguzhan Cifdaloz

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Fairbairns" <Robin.Fairbairns at CL.CAM.AC.UK>
To: <YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE>
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2004 6:01 AM
Subject: Re: IEEETran


> 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
>