[OS X TeX] A heretic thought

[George Gratzer]

Hi Ross,

But if it is plain text, not much of a logo. I tried a chapter title, looked surprisingly good upright.

George


On Aug 10, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Ross Moore <ross.moore at mq.edu.au> wrote:

> Hi George,
> 
> On 11/08/2014, at 4:02, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
> 
>> But there is a price to pay...
>> 
>> The book is typeset in Times, and it seems that the Times kerning tables
>> do not extend to lower case, upper case pairs.
>> 
>> So in LaTeX, you have to kern aT and eX manually.
>> 
>> Then you italicize it, and it is all wrong.
> 
> Why italicize it?
> It is a logo, and should be used just like a graphic, always in the same font and style.
> By all means change the size to match your chosen font height, but no more.
> 
> To do it differently is making extra work for yourself, with no guarantee of getting a pleasing or  acceptable result.
> 
>> So you have to kern aT and eX manually again for italics!
>> 
>> And then there is bold...
> 
> There should be no change, neither for italics nor bold, IMHO.
> 
> 
>> 
>> Are there specialized kern tables for Times?
>> 
>> GG
>> 
>> 
>> On Aug 5, 2014, at 1:13 PM, George Gratzer <gratzer at me.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I redid the macros, typeset the book. It looks so neat!
>>> 
>>> GG
> 
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
>    Ross
> 
> 
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