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,
http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/pdf/pre
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 19:49:38 - (GMT)
(Ted Harding) 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 example, with its ge
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
Open
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
Ralph Corderoy 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, especially used in the
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 Matthew
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 the path of a circle rather than a
paragraph w
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 C\s
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. IIRC
