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From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers)
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Subject: fonts for the QMS
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Date: Sat, 9-Jun-84 23:50:13 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  9 23:50:13 1984
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From: David L. Gehrt 

I am puzzled a little by the lack of comment in this interest group on
the quality of the troff fonts being supplied by QMS for the QMS laser
printer.  Our users would like to produce camera ready copy on the QMS,
but they are not satisfied with the results they obtain using the
distributed fonts.  The computer modern fonts have an acceptable "look"
but they lack the special character fonts to permit production of the
mathematical and chemical equations required.  The standard roman style
fonts look crummy, character spacing, etc.  We have had numerous
telephone conversations and one face-to-face with a person from QMS.
The QMS line is, "Fonts are in the mail..." so to speak.  In the
Mar-Apr time frame we were promised a "...cleaned up..." version of the
roman fonts by 1 May.  

Today we finally received a new distribution tape from them, and when I
diff'd the fonts I found no differences.  The question is, "What is the
community of QMS users doing for fonts?"  Talaris? TeX? or ???  

To be fair, fonts are about the only problem we have had here with the
system, but they are a real problem.
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