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Re: why are all books Times Roman ?

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From: Brain in Neutral
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 1989 16:24
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From article <485@hsi86.hsi.UUCP>, by stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens):
> Why are almost all technical books done in Times Roman these days ?
> ...
> Even the Red and Blue Adobe PostScript books are Times Roman.
> (You'd think that if anyone could do a book nicely in another
> font it would be Adobe.)

They have.  Look at the green book.
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