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MAG(1)                 DragonFly General Commands Manual                MAG(1)

NAME
       mag - computes fontsizes and magsteps

SYNOPSIS
       mag [-Rdpi] magstep . . .

       mag [-r] [-Rdpi] fontsize . . .

DESCRIPTION
        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^(n) x 300 rounded to its
       nearest integer value.  Fontnames for TeX fonts normally consists of
       the name (cmr), pointsize (10), type (pk) and fontsize (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
       <rcpt@urc.tue.nl>

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