Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers
From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver
Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers
Subject: Computer Evermore Modern
Message-ID: <1111@uw-beaver>
Date: Mon, 29-Apr-85 23:53:02 EDT
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1111
Posted: Mon Apr 29 23:53:02 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 1-May-85 02:36:01 EDT
Sender: daemon@uw-beaver
Organization: U of Washington Computer Science
Lines: 23

From: Les Earnest <LES@SU-AI.ARPA>

In reply to David Fuch's flame, keeping up with the most modern version of
Computer Modern is not necessarily a sensible thing to do.  CM has gone
through a number of changes and is evolving still.  It will not stop
changing until either Don Knuth decides that he has gotten it "right" or
gets tired of this business.  Rumors have it that the latter event is
fast approaching.

Changes in font designs are moderately awful to implement in commercial
systems:  it is necessary to coordinate the distribution of both the new
fonts and the host software that uses font width information.  Thereafter, 
any customer inquiries involving fonts must be tracked to determine which
font version they are using.  (No, you can't count on everyone updating --
some will decline).

Whenever the absolutely final, definitive version of Computer Modern
emerges from the TeXnocrats, I expect that Imagen and others will give
serious consideration to updating.  Until then it seems foolish to chase
a moving target.

	Happily,
	Les Earnest