<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 16, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Murray Eisenberg wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><blockquote type="cite">If you like Utopia's rather austere, unornamented style in all other respects, you might wish to check out the comments by Walter Schmidt (the PSNFSS guru) at<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://home.vrweb.de/~was/putx.html">http://home.vrweb.de/~was/putx.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">He provides a package of alternative metrics and virtual fonts to improve their appearance, plus a replacement for parts of the fourier package making use of his rather than the original Utopia metrics. (He increased the space between letters by a small amount and the interword space by a larger amount.)<br></blockquote><br>Those metrics haven't been updated/fixed yet? I ask because the date on the cite page of Walter Schmidt is 2005.<br></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>But if I had written a book using the original fourier package, or if I really liked the tight metrics of Utopia (neither of these conditions is true for me), I would be mightily upset if the original metrics were replaced in the TeX Live distribution. I think Walter Schmidt's solution is the best way forward. </div><div><br></div><div>By the way, Adobe's Kepler font package, a massive update of Utopia, has the same very tight metrics as Utopia---they seem to like them that way.</div><div><br></div><div>Michael</div></body></html>