Re: Eureka! [was Re: typescripts faq-in-progress]

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:52 PM 4/13/2002 -0600, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

>I would still like to know what rscale means. I leave fixing 
>type-arabic.tex as an exercise:-)
>This will then serve the default omega arabic script fonts for anyone 
>wishing to use them.

the rscale permits you to mix different typefaces without the need to 
define sizes:

say that you use palatino as rm, then it makes sense to use a computer 
modern monospace as companion, in which case you can use rscale to scale 
the tt relative to the rm, say 1.1

>Question: In a previous email, Hans says:
>
>"the rm, ss, tt cg, hw entries are predefined which means that they will be
>recognized and have associated commands, if you want more (with as
>restiction that they should have two char names) you can define them with
>\definefontstyle; "
>
>\definefontstyle is not mentioned in setup-en.pdf;  what are its options 
>and arguments?

isn't it in the mfonts manual?

>I really need this because, e.g. [rm] makes no sense in Arabic:->

so, then i would opt for hw, i.e. handwriting -)

>Hans says further;
>
>"in a similar fashion you can define \tfp|q|r if you want
>or even map names onto families (math) etc etc"
>
>What does "define \tfp|q|r" mean? Please explain.

there are the tfa tfb tfc tfd sizes, but in the bodyfontenvironment 
definition (see font-ini.tex) you can define extra sizes

Hans
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