Re: Newsprint2.0

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From: Karl Berry
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 00:59

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    We have a Sparcprinter and Newsprint2.0

Many people have sent me mail about the SparcPrinter.  For some people,
it appears that fonts produced for a write/white device look best; for
others, it's write/black that works better.  (Hence the two modes in
modes.mf, my collection of all modes on
ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/modes.mf).

No one has yet told me of a convincing reason why this should be so.
Perhaps it has to do the version of Sun's software.

I need your help:

If anyone who has a SparcPrinter could try out the two modes and send me
the results (i.e., `black looks better', `white looks better', or `no
difference'), together with the release of newsprint you are running,
maybe we could resolve this problem.

(If you don't have enough background to understand what modes are, or
how to test the different modes, or to get the modes.mf file, just
ignore this message.)

Thanks.

karl@cs.umb.edu
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karl@cs.umb.edu
Member of the League for Programming Freedom---write to league@prep.ai.mit.edu.

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