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From: akm@cacofonix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
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Subject: WFW equation editor/fonts question
Summary: how are printer fonts decided
Keywords: fonts symbol
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Date: 8 May 90 03:32:48 GMT
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(Used to be Re: Word Perfect 5.1 vs Word for Windows)

In article <9339@lindy.Stanford.EDU> root@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Rooter) writes:
>Um, I just got finished with a report that I did with WFW and used WFW's
>built-in equation handling facility.  

Got a question about that. I have two printers hooked up to
my computer, a deskjet and an Epson. When I switch to the epson, the
equation generator works just fine. When I use the Deskjet, it doesn't
work: for example, I get a "a" with a little circle above it instead
of a Capital Sigma.

How do printers decide what fonts are available? Why should this font
appear with the Epson (which doesn't have any built in fonts (well, it
has its draft and NLQ fonts), but not with the deskjet?

>Oh, and there is (going to be?) a Windows version of Math Text, one of the
>Macintosh dedicated equation editors.  Should list for $149 and be just
>like the Mac version.
>
IBM used to put out a DOS+Windows bundle which had some sort of
equation generator with it. I tried it a bit, but it was cumbersome,
and I didn't have any equations to generate.

cheers,

kartik
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