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Suggest keywords and characterizations for pslatex

I am glad to receive suggested keywords and characterizations for this package. I am especially glad if you are the package author but I'd take helpful advice from anyone (I reserve the right to edit or disregard anything).

Note: this form is for changes to the keywords and characterizations for this package, and anything else is invalid. Other information about the package — such as its description — I am not allowed to change; you must write ctan at dante.de. (I have a separate form for author display name and collate name because those may apply across multiple packages.)

Fill out the fields below and then move to the bottom of the page to click Submit.

Basic package information

This information may be handy in filling out the keywords and characterizations fields below.

Use PostScript fonts by default.

A small package that makes LaTeX default to ‘standard’ PostScript fonts. It is basically a merger of the times and the (obsolete) mathptm packages from the psnfss suite. You must have installed standard LaTeX and the psnfss PostScript fonts to use this package. The main novel feature is that the pslatex package tries to compensate for the visual differences between the Adobe fonts by scaling Helvetica by 90%, and ‘condensing’ Courier (i.e. scaling horizontally) by 85%. The package is supplied with a (unix) shell file for a ‘pslatex‘ command that allows standard LaTeX documents to be processed, without needing to edit the file. Note that current psnfss uses a different technique for scaling Helvetica, and treats Courier as a lost cause (there are better free fixed-width available now, than there were when pslatex was designed). As a result, pslatex is widely considered obsolete.

Author: David Carlisle

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Choose a list of keywords

Click to leave a checkmark next to all the keywords that apply. To omit a keyword, click again.

Choose a primary characterization

Pick the best description of the main job that this package does. Use the finest-grained characterization that applies. For instance, if the package is a publisher style that applies to books then select Document types > Books > Publisher styles, not Document types > Books or Document types.

Choose secondary characterizations

Many package cross categories. Pick the best description of the other jobs that this package does.

As with the primary characterization, use here the finest-grained characterization that applies. For instance, Fonts > Text body fonts, would help more people find a package than Fonts alone, because a category like the latter one would fill up quickly if we don't go for fine-grained.

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