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From: kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin Barry Crocker)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: fonts newsgroup
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Date: 9 Mar 88 16:23:51 GMT
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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Keywords: why?

>for screens, laser printers, and other goofy devices, everything from
>plotters to routers to matrix printers to tv graphics boxes.  Many/most
> 
>There are internationalization issues, format standardization and
>conversion issues, discussions of available software, techniques, and
>works in progress.
> 	Andrew Tannenbaum   Interactive   Boston, MA   +1 617 247 1155

Although Henry@utzoo has some good points my inclination is that the
arguements put forth by Andrew are the critical ones.

I know almost nothing about fonts and typography etc., but my job is to
produce course materials for use in distance education and I need to
interact with our media lab (visual designers, typographers, visual
artists, etc.) and I have already run into the situation where for
pedagogical reasons I need to have serious imput into the final
product.  Everyone must understand that the environment that controls
what my students' learning experiences are is almost totally dependent
on the visual presentation.  It would be extremely helpful to me if I
had one forum where I could go to for a robust discussion on this
topic.  I try to follow comp.text  and all the others but I have found
these discussions to be focused on other issues versus a concerted
focus on the font.

Well just my $-.02 cents worth.

ihnp4!alberta!auvax!kevinc (Kevin Crocker Athabasca University)