A reduced Helvetica virtual font (at (Walnut Creek)(1995).ISO/macros/latex209/contrib/pslatex/fonts/fonts.tex/img1.png)
normal size) has been
used for ; I have chosen to do this because of numerous
complaints that the Helvetica ``looked too big'' when placed next to
Times; the x-height of 10pt Helvetica is much bigger than the x-height
of 10pt Times (5.25pt versus 4.48pt). I do not know if I have
committed some sort of typographer's cardinal sin; comments from the
knowledgeable would be appreciated.1 If you want to normalize things,
substitute helvetica for helveticareduced in the part of
fontdef.psl that invokes \sansfont.
A similar decision was made in condensing the Courier font. If you
want unmodified Courier as the default font, change the series
settings for courier in the lfonts.psl file so that what
were previously ``medium'' ({m}) and ``bold'' ({b})
become ``medium semi-condensed'' ({sc}) and ``bold
semi-condensed'' ({bsc}), and what were previously ``medium
semi-extended'' ({sx}) and ``bold semi-extended''
({bsx}) become ``medium'' ({m}) and ``bold''
({b}).
I have tried to follow the scheme described by Karl Berry for naming
TFM files, but one irregularity is worth mentioning: There is
no space in the scheme for the encoding vector used. The TFM
files distributed with dvips use TEX encoding, which is
unsuitable for use with . To distinguish my TFM files,
I have appended a 0 to the base part of the filename.
It is now possible to make ``sans-serif LAEMTEMEXEEMX'' (based on Helvetica),
``Palatino LAEMTEMEXEEMX'', etc., by using the commands described in the
accompanying documentation.
To do the job properly, a format designer should be consulted to set new
page sizes, line widths, etc., ...volunteers are welcome!