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From: cosell@bbn.com (Bernie Cosell)
Newsgroups: comp.text.desktop
Subject: Re: Computer Modern and TeX
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Date: 12 Jun 89 01:59:35 GMT
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In article <2047@iesd.dk> fischer@iesd.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:
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}In article <32289@sri-unix.SRI.COM> maslak@unix.SRI.COM (Valerie Maslak) writes:
}>Yes, I know that TeX is great for equations, but I find Computer
}>Modern to be a nonaesthetic typeface and hard to read in blocks of
}>text ....
}
}You don't have to use CM to use TeX. Using TeX with PostScript fonts
}works fines (provided, of course, that you have a PostScript printer).
}TeX will also use any font designed with MetaFont, of course.

Except --- that TeX's math typesetting uses a whole bunch of
otherwise-nonstandard stuff which your PS printer won't know how to do.  As of
something like a month ago, the word from Adobe is that there is not yet *any*
font family that is "full enough" to allow TeX to strut its stuff.  [And even
then, I think that there is only _one_ font that is promised "real soon now"
... Lucida if I remember rightly, but I'm not sure].

If you think CM is ugly, wait'll you see what your doc looks like with
CM equations in the middle of Palatino running text ... :-(

  /Bernie\