Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!flute.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: WYSIWYG flamage (was Re: what i Message-ID: Date: 17 Aug 89 02:04:44 GMT References: <210927@<1989Jul28> <77900019@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Distribution: comp Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 21 In-reply-to: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu's message of 15 Aug 89 14:57:00 GMT In article <77900019@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes: Answer: Well, maybe he cannot. Are you aware that troff layout depends heavily on the type of output printer? Do you realize that This is a general problem not confined to troff. So don't assume that troff solves this problem -- it does not. Nobody has solved this problem. -- Not true - The format output for TeX/LaTeX, DVI, was designed to be device independent. An TeX has an internal fixed-point rational math library used to insure *exactly* the same results on different devices, at least as far as placement goes. In fact, you can't call a TeX implementation `TeX' unless it passes something called the ``trip test'' that insures that your implementation matches others. The only variability is in fonts & device resolution. You can run with blacker/darker fonts & it'll look slightly different.