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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