[9fans] The CW font with Lucidasans

[9fans] The CW font with Lucidasans

[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)]

Mixing \f(CW with '.FP lucidasans' results in text that is wildly out
of proportion.  To my eye, the CW font needs to be scaled down by
about 1.5 points to visually match the surrounding text (at the -ms
default point size).  I'm curious if this has annoyed anyone else
enough that they've come up with a work-around.

--lyndon

Re: [9fans] The CW font with Lucidasans

[Steve Simon]

I usually add these to my document

.FP lucidasans
.de EX
.SM
.CW
.DS
..
.de EE
.DE
.R
.LG
..

And then use .EX and .EE around code examples (concept
lifted from the man macros).

This is from memory, its probably more pedantic/verbose
than necessary, but it works.

-Steve

Re: [9fans] The CW font with Lucidasans

[Lyndon Nerenberg - VE6BBM/VE7TFX]

> And then use .EX and .EE around code examples (concept
> lifted from the man macros).

For offset code CW seems fine. My problem involves imbedding
CW inline. E.g.

.TS
tab(#);
l0w(.1i) l0w(.1i) lw(.1i) l .
\&...#/##Message store root.
#/1##A message in the root folder.
#/2##\f2Ibid.\fP
#/stuff#/#Subfolder \f(CW\s-1stuff\s0\fP under the root folder.
#/stuff#/!index#The metadata cache for the subfolder \f(CW\s-1stuff\s0\fP.
#/stuff#/29#A message in subfolder \f(CW\s-1stuff\s0\fP.
#/stuff#/42#\0\0\0... and another.
#/stuff#/more/...#Subfolder \f(CW\s-1stuff/more\s0\fP.
.TE

Without the \s-1 CW is way out of whack proportionally, due to its
large x-height. Shrinking by a point (as above) still looks out of whack,
but it's less likely to make me barf.

Fractional point size changes would be nice, but what I really want
here is the ability to add a global scaling factor to a specific font
(position).

--lyndon