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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Free TeX for MSDOS machines
Keywords: TeX, freebie, previewer
Message-ID: <1989Oct28.144240.15048@cs.rochester.edu>
Date: 28 Oct 89 14:42:40 GMT
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Address: Rochester, NY 14627, (716) 275-1448

Thought the reply might be of general interest.

|First, some sort of previewer to avoid all those wasted laser-printer pages
|Second, font metric files for the American modern fonts - SBTeX came with
|computer modern fonts which are not so pretty.

There are a couple of previewers in simtel ps1:<msdos.tex>. dview and dvivga
if I recall. I have no experience with them.

Secondly AM stands for Almost Modern. I don't know of many people who
would agree with you that AM looks better than CM. I don't know where
you can get even AM Metafont source now. Oh yeah, from some archival
tapes here. :-)

|(Question: are these font metric files just standard, so I can copy them from 
|anywhere with no technical or legal problems)

Yes, you can copy them freely.