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Article #102Re: embedded-command text systems [TeX fonts]
From: bothner
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1985 10:20
Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1985 10:20
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In article <2168@glacier.ARPA> reid@glacier.UUCP (Brian Reid) writes: >Actually, the typesetting [of TeX] isn't all THAT bad. ... >Some of it is the design of the type face. Neither of those has >anything to do with TeX, save that TeX only knows how to work with its own >type faces. I've often mixed TeX (Metafont) fonts with Xerox fonts in the same TeX document, and successfully printed them on the Dover. If you generate a TFM file (TeX font metric) file to describe character widths etc, you can get your fonts from anywhere you choose. What is special about the standard TeX fonts, is that you can expect them to exist on any TeX system, and to print out the same on any printer that you have written a driver for. -- --Per Bothner Bothner@su-navajo ...!decwrl!glacier!navajo!bothner Computer Science Dept., Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site Navajo.ARPA Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!glacier!Navajo!bothner From: bothner@Navajo.ARPA Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: embedded-command text systems [TeX fonts] Message-ID: <287@Navajo.ARPA> Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 05:20:35 EST Article-I.D.: Navajo.287 Posted: Mon Dec 9 05:20:35 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Dec-85 03:21:08 EST References: <705@unc.unc.UUCP> <2168@glacier.ARPA> Reply-To: bothner@Navajo.UUCP (Per Bothner) Distribution: net Organization: Stanford University Lines: 17