At 10:29 97-04-16, Rolf Marvin B|e Lindgren wrote:
>using Alan Jeffrey's fontinst package, and the utilities that are
>included with these, converting PostScript fonts to TeX fonts is not
>very difficult - at least not for text fonts. using a script that I
>hacked myself, I was able to convert the entire Adobe PostScript font
>collection to TeX fonts.
>
>I won't make this available to the public until I'm sure that the fonts
>behave correctly. however, somebody who knows more about fonts than I
>might want to convert the lot and make it available to CTAN.
Is there not a problem here: PostScript fonts may only come in one size,
which then is rescaled.
But in correct typesetting, as in TeX fonts, the weights and proportions
actually change with the font size.