Re: Hello from GNU Press

[Karl Berry]

    > Everything has bold.  You're right that some fonts have oblique and not
    > italic, and that should be handled by the system.

            Agreed.  But then we'd have to either:

I think you're right that this will end up requiring us to have separate
files for each family.  Let's not cross that bridge until we come to
that though.  And the crucial thing is to make the separate files be as
small as possible ...

    That's because the CM fonts are actually different at
    different sizes, right?  The larger ones are presumed to be titling
    fonts.)

It is true that cmr8 ... cmr10 ... cmr12 aren't just linear scalings of
each other, unlike PostScript.  This makes defining the cm side of
things much harder (but look better :).

    texinfo.tex patch for this; but it's against the texinfo.tex inside GCC,

Doesn't gcc pick up the latest texinfo.tex for each release?  They should.
There are bug fixes all the time.  (I realize the current gcc texinfo.tex
might not be 100% up to date.)

    and not CVS HEAD.  It does carry the gist of things, so perhaps you'd
    like to look at it.

Sure.  It always sounded like a nightmare to me.