Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!basser!jaa From: jaa@basser.oz (James Ashton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: What angle do Times-Ital. and Palatino-Ital. slant at? Message-ID: <1647@basser.oz> Date: 28 Nov 88 15:04:02 GMT References: <1822@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> Reply-To: jaa@basser.oz (James Ashton) Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia Lines: 21 The exact slope used varies from character to character over quite a range for the italics fonts which are not after all like oblique fonts but are separately created. For Times Italic the angle of the pipe symbol comes out with the help of some simple trigonometry at 15.5 degrees. For Palatino Italic it's not so easy as the pipe symbol is not sloped at all. This in itself could be a problem if you plan to simply change the font transformation matrix to reverse the slope as then this symbol will be sloped backwards. I looked at the longest straight sections I could find on several of the brackets and `I' and 'H' characters but surprisingly there was large variation even within the characters and sections which appear to the eye to be straight are in fact curved. The character which has the longest straight line is the paragraph marker and its slope was 8.3 degrees. I can't understand why you would want to do what you want to do but looking at a range of characters in both fonts, the actual slope varies over range of about three degrees depending on the character. James Ashton.