Re: Hello from GNU Press

[Simon Law]

On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 03:47:22PM -0400, Karl Berry wrote:
>     > 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 ...

        OK.  We are in agreement then.  I hope to have something that we
\input when someone says "@fontfamily roman ppl" that will define the
right variables.  It should be completely transparent to the user,
though.

>     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 :).

        It's not just CM, because EC also does this.  

>     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.)

        I don't actually know this for a fact.  However, I used their
gcc/gcc/doc/include/texinfo.tex since it's already integrated into their
build system.

>     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.

        It should appear on the mailing list soon.

Simon

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