X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["279" "Thu" "1" "October" "92" "17:13:05" "+0100" "\"Chris Rowley -- OU, UK (R01/Maths)\"" "C.A.Rowley@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "9" "Re: picture mode in LaTeX3/additional fonts in distribution" "^Date:" nil nil "10"]) Return-Path: Received: from sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (serv01) by dagobert.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.1/SMI-4.0/1.9.92 ) id AA06401; Thu, 1 Oct 92 17:20:51 +0100 Received: from vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (vm.hd-net.uni-heidelberg.de) by sc.ZIB-Berlin.DE (4.0/SMI-4.0-sc/19.6.92) id AA23504; Thu, 1 Oct 92 17:20:22 +0100 Message-Id: <9210011620.AA23504@sc.zib-berlin.dbp.de> Received: from DHDURZ1 by vm.urz.Uni-Heidelberg.de (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with BSMTP id 1328; Thu, 01 Oct 92 17:20:57 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 1314; Thu, 01 Oct 92 17:20:51 CET Received: from DHDURZ1 by DHDURZ1 (Mailer R2.08 R208004) with BSMTP id 1310; Thu, 01 Oct 92 17:20:48 CET Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project Date: Thu, 1 Oct 92 17:13:05 +0100 From: "Chris Rowley -- OU, UK (R01/Maths)" Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of Subject: Re: picture mode in LaTeX3/additional fonts in distribution Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 808 > This saves wear and tear on the > wheel-reinventing shop and avoids reliance on \special s, since > metafont is already part of the standard TeX distribution. Not for all (most?) systems it is not, and even if it is most people do not want to waste disk space for it. chris