On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 08:32:17PM +0000, Duncan Simpson wrote: > > Oops! The program called t1inst in my last email is really called type1inst. It > does extract the font information from afm files automagically, so the font > name will match whatever the afm files says. If you get your postscript > versions of the TeX fonts from he AMS you will have cmsy10 and not plain cmsy. > > In some ways this makes sense: TeX's cmsy10 is not magnified cmsy5. If there > was justt cmsy then the sizes would be scaled versions of each other and this > does not match TeX. Havinf said that handling it will compilicae the font > selection code but there is not much I can do about that.
So I think I will use font name like the one produced by type1inst. They are ugly, but it doesn't matter to the user, since he doesn't need to know their names. One exception is that I will use bluesky as foundy (instead of unknown) e.g. -blusesky-cmsy10-...
