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From: ram@umb.umb.edu (Robert Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: TeX, Metafont, and 400 dpi NeXT printer
Message-ID: <744@umb.umb.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 89 02:54:05 GMT
References: <1515@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> <73465UH2@PSUVM> <554@adobe.UUCP>
Reply-To: ram@umb.UUCP (Robert Morris)
Organization: Dept of Math and CS, UMass Boston.
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In article <554@adobe.UUCP> greid@adobe.COM (Glenn Reid) writes:
>You could always just scrap the Computer Modern fonts and use PostScript
>fonts?  [...]
>
>Perhaps this has already occurred to you and you have ruled it out for
>other reasons, but I thought I should point it out, at least.
>

Local TeXperts tell me that PostScript fonts do not carry enough
information to do TeX math mode setting, without which TeX is perhaps
even a second choice to pc word processors for everything but book
quality composition. I'd be very glad to have this shown wrong by
someone who is setting TeX math on LaserWriters entirely in PostScript
fonts, and hope they will tell me where to get the tfm files and
relevant output driver.

Bob Morris
UMASS-Boston Dept. of Math and C.S.
and Interleaf, Inc.