Martijn Brouwer wrote: > As far as I know type1 fonts (such as lmodern) scale just by multiplying > the width and height by the same factor. The CM and EC fonts are scaled > more subtle depending on the size. I assume that the lmodern fonts > look the same as EC modern at all font sizes. How doest that work?
You are right, that expressibe abilities of Metafont are much bigger than Type1's. Therefore there are two options how to create Type1 fonts emulating Computer Modern fonts -- either just to select some most used size of tons (which is I assume what lmodern does), or to generate A LOT of Type1 fonts. There IS the font which does the latter <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/cm-super.html>, but the result is that fonts itself is huge (whole tarball with many thousands fonts has over 70MB) and the resulting documents (if you use many fonts) are big as well. Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary. -- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
