Slant character manually in TeX coding

Question

How to slant some character in the text of roman font (I don't want to use italics coding)?

I need this to work in TeX not in LaTex. for example ${\bf n}$ The output required is slanted "n" in bold roman — Mydeen, Jun 24 '15 at 07:33
could you please guide what is wrong in my code ${\sl \tf="OTb65e897d_B"n}$ ${\tf="OTb65e897d_B"{\sl n}}$ — Mydeen, Jun 24 '15 at 07:39
What should \tf do? And recall that font declarations are not cumulative, so \sl\bf is equivalent to \bf. See my edited answer. — egreg, Jun 24 '15 at 07:46
I don't know if this pdflatex technique at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/63179/shear-transform-a-box can be adapted for plain TeX, but it might be worth a look. — Steven B. Segletes, Jun 24 '15 at 10:07

Heiko Oberdiek · Answer 1 · 2015-06-24T10:56:30.150

Slant font of plain TeX

The plain TeX format defines \tensl to hold the slanted (not italics) variant of the default CM roman font, from plain.tex:

\font\tensl=cmsl10 % slanted roman

It can be used via \tensl or the higher level command \sl:

Default font vs.~{\sl slanted font.}
\bye

For more details, see the answer of egreg.

Slanting with TikZ

TikZ can be used with plain TeX, it allows arbitrary slant angles:

\input tikz

\def\slant#1#2{%
  \tikz[baseline=(X.base), xslant=tan(#1)]
    \node[inner sep=0pt, xslant=tan(#1)](X){#2};%
}

Normal, \slant{9.46}{slanted,} \slant{45}{larger slanting,}
\slant{-15}{slanted to the left.}

\bye

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 24 '15 at 07:42

7

The Plain TeX format provides \sl, so

This is {\sl slanted\/} type

will do.

If you need “boldface slanted”, you have to define the font:

\font\tenslbf=cmbxsl10
\def\slbf{\tenslbf}

(the definition is just to possibly support math mode, if needed).

Full example:

\font\tenslbf=cmbxsl10
\def\slbf{\tenslbf}

This is {\sl slanted\/} type.

This is {\slbf boldface slanted\/} type.

\bye

enter image description here

Here's the basic support for math:

\font\tenslbf=cmbxsl10
\newfam\slbffam
\textfont\slbffam=\tenslbf
\def\slbf{\tenslbf\fam\slbffam}

This is {\sl slanted\/} type.

This is {\slbf boldface slanted\/} type.

${\sl n}\neq{\slbf n}$

\bye

enter image description here

answered Jun 24 '15 at 07:42

egreg

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Thanks bro. Actually I am using 3B2 softwareIn this it has option to def. as I coded. \def \bf {\tf="XXX"} means assign the font for \bf code. It has no option for create external cls file. The above coding is not supported in 3B2. Thanks for your swift reply and answers. – Mydeen Jun 24 '15 at 08:25
@Mydeen That I know of, 3B2 no longer uses TeX at all so that is perhaps not a surprise! – Joseph Wright Jun 24 '15 at 08:26
Is that any other way to get the output in 3B2. – Mydeen Jun 24 '15 at 08:29
@Mydeen 3B2 is commercial software and presumably has appropriate support. If there is a TeX back end in the version you have then it should be accessible somewhere. If it doesn't we can't really help. – Joseph Wright Jun 24 '15 at 10:58

Slant character manually in TeX coding

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Slant font of plain TeX

Slanting with TikZ

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