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Subject: Re: RFC -- a TeX font naming system
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Date: 26 Apr 91 05:43:12 GMT
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In article <4427@undis.cs.chalmers.se> jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se (Alan Jeffrey) writes:
>and so the dvi file would no longer be portable.  (And yes, people do
>port dvi files around rather than TeX files---the day TeX guarantees
>the same output from the same input is the day people will stop
>sending dvi files around.)
>
>Alan Jeffrey         Tel: +46 31 72 10 98         jeffrey@cs.chalmers.se
>Department of Computer Sciences, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
.
. the day your computer system computes multiplication with the same
. degree of accuracy as mine will be the day TeX is 100% portable.
.
. albert