Sebastian Rahtz <[log in to unmask]> write: > > 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. > > > > So how does that work out here? > >um, this is what i would call a canard. we have known this since the >first uses of PS fonts in TeX (I did my first book in LaTeX with Times >in 1986). its a fact of life that most PS fonts only come in 10 pt >size. Some have other sizes. Many Computer Modern fonts have a range >of sizes, some have more than others. > >99% of the typesetting world gets by fine with the (technically >perhaps inferior) optical-scaling-plus-hints of Type1 fonts. >I suggest there are more productive things to worry about I think Springer Verlag uses TeX in part because it produces the right thing. So I think simply using rescaled fonts would produce inferior technical typesetting. I would label PS as a "page description" language, whereas TeX is a "typesetting" language. PS admits correct fonts typesetting, but the programs used to produce PS output defaults to the simplification of using merely font rescaling. So I do not think this is a minor issue, when it comes down to TeX; this is in fact something that really makes TeX typesetting. Hans Aberg