On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:49:38 - (GMT)
(Ted Harding) ted.hard...@wlandres.net wrote:
And the Blue Book, i.e. the PostScript Language Tutorial and
Cookbook can be downloaded (it was published in 1985) from:
http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/offline/PostScript/BLUEBOOK.PDF
The circular text
On 19/01/15 15:04:50, James K. Lowden wrote:
In musing about PostScript I came across Mathematical Illustrations
by Bill Casselman, http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/ and
his example of text-on-a-path on page 3 of the preface,
Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk wrote:
http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem
complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps
designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's
long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0,
Hi,
http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem
complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps
designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's
long-time S\s-2MALL\s0 C\s-2APS\s0, especially used in the formatting of
Unix.
On 18-Jan-2015 11:15:05 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem
complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps
designed by the designer. Thought it might be of interest given troff's
long-time S\s-2MALL\s0
Rather than shrinking, squash the fake small caps, eg:
S\H'\n[.s]*5/7'MALL\H'0' C\H'\n[.s]*5/7'APS\H'0'
(the 5/7 should approximate to the x-height of the font).
This works better because more of the heavy strokes in a western font
are upright, and this keeps the weight of those.
As
On 18-Jan-2015 12:32:56 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Cartsen,
Robert Thorsby wrote:
I need to set some text (eg., Lorem Ipsum) along the arc of a curve
(eg, a circle). The curve itself need not be visible.
Heirloom troff has a .pshape request for that.
Robert's after text that follows
On Sun, Jan 18, 2015, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi,
http://2d.laboratorium.net/post/108351875900/small-caps-big-problem
complains about small caps from Word, etc., compared with small caps
designed by the designer.
I'm fond of smallcaps, but I don't like the faked version, not even the
OpenType