Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!kth.se!sunic!mcsun!ukc!ox-prg!culhua!jg From: jg@prg.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy Gibbons) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: Re: typesetting math Message-ID: Date: 14 May 91 19:19:24 GMT References: <24633@well.sf.ca.us> Sender: news@prg.ox.ac.uk Distribution: comp Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory, UK Lines: 24 In-reply-to: ari@well.sf.ca.us's message of 8 May 91 00:31:37 GMT > [TeX's] typographic and > font capabilities (at least, insofar as I am aware, which isn't > as far as it might be) are far too limited for our purposes. I'm not sure I understand you. TeX can use any PostScript font (as long as you are prepared to print the result on a PostScript device), and it can also use Bitstream fonts (with the help of a package from Personal TeX Inc to convert Bitstream outlines to the bitmaps that TeX understands). That should give you enough fonts to be getting on with. As for typographic capabilities... TeX isn't much good for fancy page makeup, with text flowing around diagrams etc. (TeX's linebreaking and pagebreaking algorithms act asynchronously; TeX builds paragraphs and adds them to a `scroll', every now and then cutting off enough for a page. When a paragraph is made into lines, TeX doesn't `know' where it will go on the page and so can't change the line lengths accordingly. TeX *can* handle page makeup where all parts of the text are the same width--for example, for a grid-oriented layout--because this does fit into its `scroll' model.) Jeremy *-----------------------------------------------------------------------* | Jeremy Gibbons (jg@prg.oxford.ac.uk) Funky Monkey Multimedia Corp | *-----------------------------------------------------------------------*