Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!apple!sun-barr!lll-winken!tekbspa!optilink!cramer From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Boldface math/greek font? Keywords: math greek boldface font postscript Message-ID: <2402@optilink.UUCP> Date: 26 Sep 89 17:36:21 GMT References: <1349@sagepub.UUCP> Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA Lines: 30 In article <1349@sagepub.UUCP>, dfm@sagepub.UUCP (David F. McCune) writes: > I use Ventura Publisher and a Postscript printer to typeset books. > One customer has given me a manuscript that calls for boldface > mathematical symbols and Greek letters. The "Symbol" font that > is included in the standard 35 resident Postscript fonts does not > come in boldface (or italic). Judging from the Adobe catalog, there > is no math typeface available from Adobe in bold and italic. Does > anyone know of any other Postscript typeface that I can buy? Or is > there another way to skin this cat? Thanks! > > David McCune, Sage Publications, Inc. Here's an incredibly savage way of getting ersatz bold, italic, and bold italic 10 point Symbol: /S10-Bold {dup /Symbol findfont 1000 scalefont setfont 0 0 moveto show 30 0 moveto show} bind def /S10-Italic{/Symbol findfont [1000 0 267.95 1000 0 0] makefont setfont 0 0 moveto show} bind def /S10-BoldItalic{dup /Symbol findfont [1000 0 267.95 1000 0 0] makefont setfont 0 0 moveto show 30 0 moveto show} bind def Hold your stomach -- they aren't pleasant, and depending on the width of the character, you may have problems with some wide characters going off the edge of the bounding box. -- Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer What shall it be today? Watch Three's Company? Or unify the field theory? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!