Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 UW 5/3/83; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!laser-lovers From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver (laser-lovers) Newsgroups: fa.laser-lovers Subject: fonts for the QMS Message-ID: <962@uw-beaver> Date: Sat, 9-Jun-84 23:50:13 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beaver>.962 Posted: Sat Jun 9 23:50:13 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jun-84 07:06:54 EDT Sender: daemon@uw-beave Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 22 From: David L. GehrtI 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. ----------