Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-ngp.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!jjhnsn From: jjhnsn@ut-ngp.UUCP (J. Lee Johnson) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: DVI question Message-ID: <1131@ut-ngp.UUCP> Date: Fri, 14-Dec-84 16:30:20 EST Article-I.D.: ut-ngp.1131 Posted: Fri Dec 14 16:30:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 16-Dec-84 05:20:23 EST References: <256@zinfandel.UUCP> <1671@umcp-cs.UUCP> <4755@utzoo.UUCP> <602@godot.UUCP> Organization: U.Texas Computation Center, Austin, Texas Lines: 29 > 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 ARPA: jjhnsn@ut-ngp UUCP: {allegra,ihnp4,gatech,ut-sally}!ut-ngp!jjhnsn