reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) (12/10/85)
Several people have pointed out that you can make TFM files for fonts that are not TeX fonts. This is true, but TeX can't set math with them. The information that TeX needs to set math with a font is substantially greater than what is contained in the TFM files. If you are willing to live with a document that has the body in Palatino and the math in Computer Modern, that's fine with me. You can even pick nits and say that TeX can set math with any font. True, I suppose, but it can't do it well, and the supposed reason that people use TeX in the first place is to do things well. -- Brian Reid decwrl!glacier!reid Stanford reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA