CM fonts

Sun, 28 Apr 2002 15:42:41 +0200

At 02.07 +0200 2002-04-28, Nirmal Govind wrote:
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>The tex-fonts list (tex-fonts@math.utah.edu) would be more
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>Great.. thanks for the pointer..<br><br>
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I might add that most tex-fonts list subscribers don't like mail encoded as
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discourages this:

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I might add that since most subscribers to the fontinst list also are
subscriberes to the tex-fonts list, the same netiquette applies here, even
though it hasn't (to my knowledge) been written down anywhere.

Another reason not to use HTML is that SpamBouncer
(http://www.spambouncer.org/) filters out such mail. (It is quite right in
doing so; more than 90% of the HTML-encoded mail I get is spam!) Your reply
was already in the trashcan when I saw it ...

>>That can certainly be done (by changing the printer mode that MF works
>>with), but it may well be the case that what you see is the CM fonts as
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>Can you elaborate on the above? How do I change the printer mode?
>(MF=Modern Fonts?)

No, MF = MetaFont, which is the program that actually makes the fonts. As
for the rest, it is better discussed on the tex-fonts list.

Lars Hellström