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From: trickey@alice.UucP (Howard Trickey)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: embedded-command text systems
Message-ID: <4683@alice.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 9-Dec-85 08:35:26 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  9 08:35:26 1985
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Organization: Bell Labs, Murray Hill
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Brian Reid wrote that TeX only knows how to deal with its own typefaces.
That's usually true in practice, but it is possible to make TeX work with
other ones.  I've just finished making a "TaTeX": LaTeX using Times Roman
instead of Computer Modern.  The hard part is making up TeX font description
files (tfm's) with the information TeX wants for kerning, accent placement,
and ligatures.  I could also use any number of other typefaces (Palatino
looks nice), but then I'd lose some accents or have to load other fonts
just for accents.
	Howard Trickey, AT&T Bell Labs
	research!trickey