[OS X TeX] scaling fonts in latex

[Herb Schulz]

>Le 23 mars 05, à 09:59, Thomas A.Schmitz a écrit :
>
>>NOW the question: I would like to have a second option to the 
>>package that would scale the font in relation to the main bodyfont 
>>of the document, something similar to what the helvet.sty package 
>>does:
>>\usepackage[Gentium,scale=.95]
>>e.g., to scale the Gentium font to 95 %. I tried and looked in the 
>>helvet.sty to see how it is done there, but my latex knowledge just 
>>isn't sufficient to do this (I usually use context). I think I need 
>>the keyval package, but I can't see where the scale-declaration 
>>would go. Can anybody help?
>
>It's done through the conjunction of helvet.sty and the accompanying 
>.fd files, and does indeed require the package keyval.sty. In 
>essence, the code inside helvet.sty defines \Hv at scale as <number> 
>when the package is called with the option [scale=<number>], and 
>then the .fd files use that value as a scale multiplier when calling 
>the .tfm font metric files. For example, inside ot1phv.fd you have:
>
>>\expandafter\ifx\csname Hv at scale\endcsname\relax
>>  \let\Hv@@scale\@empty
>>\else
>>  \edef\Hv@@scale{s*[\csname Hv at scale\endcsname]}%
>>\fi
>>
>>\DeclareFontFamily{OT1}{phv}{}
>>\DeclareFontShape{OT1}{phv}{m}{n}{
>>    <-> \Hv@@scale phvr7t
>>}{}
>
>which defines \Hv@@scale as the scale multiplier (in LaTeX's 2e 
>low-level font syntax) s*[\Hv at scale], and defines the phv font 
>family in medium series and normal shape to refer to the metrics 
>phvr7t.tfm preceded by \Hv@@scale. For this low-level syntax, see 
>section 4 of 
>/Library/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/latex/base/fntguide.dvi.
>
>I think Herb Schulz from this list has written a custom package 
>extending this mechanism to other fonts than Helvetica.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Bruno Voisin
>

Howdu,

As usual, Bruno said it better than I could. You can take a look at 
the couriers package on CTAN and see the parallel work I did to make 
a scalable Courier font. Just emulate that and it should work.

Good Luck,
Herb Schulz


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