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From: north@hector.UUCP (Steve North)
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Subject: Re: Comments on TeX - The Program
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Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 22:21:17 EDT
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The really amusing thing about TeX is that it seems designed to make it
unlikely that you can send your friends a TeX file that they can print,
because they may not have "cmramrmagicfont at 14pt"

We all know the canonical TeX hacker advice: Of course dummy you have
the old PXL GF AMR CM fonts why don't you be manly and bring up METAFONT
and design your own hobbit fonts at 23.5 pt surely you have an extra 10MB
of disk space."

Maybe LaTeX helps?  I try to avoid anything in which the word FRAGILE appears
in the documentation but a lot of people use it but then a lot of people smoke
cigarettes too.  Would anyone care to estimate the fraction of contributions
to the TeXhax mailing list that deal with fonts?

Now this.
Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus!