[comp.text.tex] TeX tool interworking

ctw@cns.umist.ac.uk (Colin Walls) (09/14/90)

I have a nice set of TeX tools, release 3.0 of TeX, LaTeX with the new font
selection mechanism (with the adaptions by Sebastian Rahtz for PostScript font
families), Dirk Grunwalds Xtex and Tomas Rokickis dvips. While they all
work nicely 
together using the Computer modern fonts they do not do so with
PostScript fonts.

What chance of some cooperation between the LaTeX developers, the
previewer and the
printer driver developers to come to some common naming scheme for
fonts, 
preferably the same as the X11 font naming scheme. Then we could use the
X window
fonts for previewers and be sure that the final copy would look the same
as the
screen preview.

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