MAG(1) General Commands Manual MAG(1)
NAME
mag - computes TeX fontsizes and magsteps
SYNOPSIS
mag [-Rdpi] magstep . . .
mag [-r] [-Rdpi] fontsize . . .
DESCRIPTION
delim $$ This tool calculates fontsizes given magsteps. TeXfonts are
provided as true sized fonts or as magnifications. The fontsize of a
true sized font equals the resolution of the printer (ex. 300). The
fontsize of a font magnified $n$ magsteps equals: 1.2 sup{n} times 300
delim off rounded to its nearest integer value. Fontnames for TeX fonts
normally consists of the name (cmr), pointsize (10), type (pk) and font-
size (360), for example: cmr10.360pk.
EXAMPLES
The result of mag -R240 -2 0 0.5 1 will be:
167 240 263 288
The inverse function is computed with the -r option. The result of mag
-r -R240 167 240 263 288 will be the fontsteps:
-2 0 0.5 1
The UNIX shells allow command substitution. One can write:
mag -r -R240 `mag -R240 -2 0 0.5 1`
DATE
18 December, 1989
AUTHOR
Piet Tutelaers
University of Technology Eindhoven
Maintained in TeX Live; please send bug reports or other correspondence
to tex-k@tug.org (http://lists.tug.org/tex-k).
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