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 2.5 Widths
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 The "width" of a font specifies the compression or expansion of the
 font.  Arranged from narrowest to widest (more or less):
 
      ultra compressed, extra condensed, compressed, condensed, narrow
      regular
      semiextended, extended, expanded, wide
 
    Expansion or compression of fonts is sometimes done automatically
 (as by the PostScript `scale' operator), and sometimes done by humans.
 In the latter case, the human will also presumably choose a font name
 which includes `Extended' or `Expanded' or `Condensed' or `Narrow' or
 whatever according to their own preferences; the abbreviation can
 follow along.  When creating a new synthetically expanded or compressed
 font for use with TeX, e.g., with Afm2tfm or `fontinst', use `n' and
 `e'.
 
    Here is the table, from the file `width.map'.  It is organized
 alphabetically by abbreviation.  Each line consists of an abbreviation
 and any parts of a PostScript `FontName' which use that abbreviation.
 
      c Condensed Cond
      e Expanded
      n Narrow Semicondensed
      o UltraCondensed
      p Compressed Compact
      q ExtraCompressed ExtraCondensed
      r Normal Medium Regular (usually omitted)
      t Thin
      u UltraCompressed
      v ExtraExpanded more than Expanded, less than Wide
      w Wide
      x Extended Elongated
      y Semiexpanded
 

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