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  1. Xref: sparky comp.text.tex:14681 comp.text:1536
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!news.nd.edu!bsu-cs!bsu-ucs.uucp!00prneubauer
  3. From: 00prneubauer@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (Paul Neubauer)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.text.tex,comp.text
  5. Subject: Re: TeX and "Point" definition.
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan6.120246.13408@bsu-ucs>
  7. Date: 6 Jan 93 17:02:46 GMT
  8. References: <1993Jan5.042526.5853@hparc0.aus.hp.com> <1993Jan5.143540.15048@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>
  9. Followup-To: comp.text.tex,comp.text
  10. Organization: Ball State U.
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  12.  
  13. In article <1993Jan5.143540.15048@wraxall.inmos.co.uk>, 
  14.  des@inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd) writes:
  15. > 1sp *is* useful sometimes when you need something to be different from
  16. > 0pt but not visibly so! i.e. giving a font a slant of 1sp makes
  17. > LaTeX think that it is an italic font when using \em - this can
  18. > sometimes be useful.
  19.  
  20. How so?  LaTeX doesn't really care what the actual font is that \em
  21. uses.  `Giving a font a slant' requires running off a special version
  22. of the font using Metafont.  If you don't want that font to actually
  23. look different, why not just \let\em\relax ?
  24.  
  25. -- 
  26. Paul Neubauer   00prneubauer@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu  00prneubauer@bsuvax1.BITNET
  27.                 00prneubauer@bsu-ucs.UUCP       neubauer@bsu-cs.UUCP
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