Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: DVI question Message-ID: <4776@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Dec-84 15:51:13 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4776 Posted: Wed Dec 12 15:51:13 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 12-Dec-84 15:51:13 EST References: <4755@utzoo.UUCP>, <2056@uw-june> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 14 > ... With > TeX, you get the Metafonted fonts and the point of all of that is to give > you an approximation of a consistent environment for the different devices > you want to print to... A consistent environment, so long as want you want is Computer Modern Roman. Ugh. Real typesetting machines generally have their own private ideas about fonts, which brings us back to square one. To rephrase my previous comment: at present, any similarity in fonts across devices is the exception rather than the rule. So font-dependency equals device- dependency. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry