Quality of TeX fonts

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From: abrueggemann
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1987 17:24

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In this newsgroup and in publications on document processing, there
have been several comments on the quality of TeX's built-in fonts.
The old am-fonts are described as horrible, and the new cm-fonts
are described as acceptable or even good.

Frankly, if I compare documents set with the old or the new fonts,
I can hardly see a difference. I am aware of the fact that very
subtle properties that can only be detected by specialists
can decide on the quality of a font family. I'd like to see a
list of improvements of the new cm-fonts compared
with the old am-fonts.

Any pointers or comments?

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From: abrueggemann@watdaisy.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Quality of TeX fonts
Message-ID: <8176@watdaisy.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 12:24:23 EST
Article-I.D.: watdaisy.8176
Posted: Wed Mar  4 12:24:23 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Mar-87 19:57:43 EST
Reply-To: abrueggemann@watdaisy.UUCP (Anne Brueggemann-Klein)
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Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: TeX, fonts
Summary: Differences between am-fonts and cm-fonts?