Re: Text formatting without soft fonts

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From: nils-peter.nelson
Date: Mon, 11 May 1992 14:32

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Correspondent claimed troff and TeX have their own fonts.
TeX may have MetaFont, but troff uses the native font of
your device. It does have font directories, but these
normally contain width tables so it knows where to break
lines. I would further point out the benefit of the
Picasso (and other) graphics program, which draws pictures
with PostScript primitives.  Your printer runs a lot
faster when you say "arc" than if you send it 1,000 tiny
line segments, or a 4 meg bitmap.

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Subject: Re: Text formatting without soft fonts
Summary: troff does *not* supply its own fonts
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