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From: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Why troff?
Message-ID: <2988@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Jan-87 18:34:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 26 18:34:50 1987
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Reply-To: elwell@osu-eddie.UUCP (Clayton M. Elwell)
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Keywords: TeX, troff

Sigh.  I'll be the first to admit that the Computer Modern fonts are some
of the ugliest fonts known to man (I may be biased by my background in
medieval calligraphy--I like oldstyle fonts better than modern-style fonts
in general).  However:

NOTHING SAYS YOU HAVE TO USE ONLY CMR WITH TeX!

All you need are the appropriate font metric files.  The TeX distribution
includes tools for constructing them for any font.  I myself regularly use
Times Roman and ITC Palatino on an Apple LaserWriter.  I have also
used various bizarre fonts on our Xerox 2700 that were never intended to
be used by TeX (if Xerox fonts aren't proprietary, nothing is...).

Please don't judge teX by the CMR fonts.

--Clayton



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