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From: jjhnsn@ut-ngp.UUCP (J. Lee Johnson)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: Re: DVI question
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Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 16:30:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec 14 16:30:20 1984
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> From: furuta@uw-june (Richard Furuta)
> 
> 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.  Poor quality output from certain devices reflects
> differences between what they provide and the "ideal device" that TeX
> expects to find.
> 
> The fact that you find different width fonts on different devices is a
> reflection of real world factors (like different designers, copyrights, and
> trade secrets).

>> From: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich)
>> 
>> TeX output is completely device-independent; it knows nothing about the
>> output device.  What it does know about are fonts, which are identical
>> to TeX across devices.  If the relative widths, heights, or shapes of
>> glyphs in a font are different on two devices, the two fonts are
>> certainly not the same.

If I understand this correctly, TeX DVI files are completely device
independent for all ideal TeX devices in a perfect and harmonious
world.

( Can I come for a visit? )
James Lee Johnson, U.T. Computation Center, Austin, Texas 78712
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