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Subject: Portable output
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 03:41:04 EST
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Rusty@weyl.Berkeley.EDU (Rusty Wright) writes:
>One of the TeX advantages that you forgot is font compatibility.  If
>you use TeX and stick with TeX's Computer Modern font then you can be
>confident that your output will be the same regardless of what output
>device you use.  With troff you never know what fonts will be
>available at some place until you get there (or ask beforehand).

With the expanding domain of postscript and the dvips program, I can 
be reasonably sure that any TeXing I do for one ps machine will be
the same as another. (really handy when preparing stuff for a PS typesetter.)

Now, if someone would just put together .tfm files for the Laserwriter+
extra fonts.  (Glenn@hobiecat are you out there ?)

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