Re: More font problems -- CMTT instead of Courier

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:35 PM 12/28/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>On Thu, 27 Dec 2001, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
> > >\starttypescript [sans] [courier] [name]
> > >
> > >should read
> > >
> > >\starttypescript [mono] [courier] [name]
> >
> > Whow, that's indeed a stupid bug.
>
>Well, some of us prefer cmtt over Courier! Some "bugs" really are
>features

right! the variable width font cmvtt10 is also pretty good.

btw, it is no problem to combine serif/sans/mono typescripts, but beware of 
relative scaling; this is why the scale factor is sometimes set in a 
typeface definition

>Two things I often need are a (fake) caps font and (now) cmtt (e.g.,
>instead of Courier). I can enable a caps font generated using fontutil by
>redefining a few things right in my files, but I don't seem to be able to
>make such tweaks work via a typescript file. The examples in the manuals
>show how to add new fonts, but aren't as clear about what is needed when
>you only want to make a small change to one of the predefined fonts. Now
>that I have two things to tweak it makes more sense to create a new
>typescript.

in many cases you only need to remap a filename

i think that it's worth looking into the caps and use cap fonts instead of 
scaled ones; it's more robust to have caps in the lowercase slots than to 
uppercase a string.

Hans
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