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In Adrian's recent message:

> In fact, if producing the same output on all devices is deemed to be
> of overriding importance, perhaps the default could be made to be
> PiCTeX-like lines, with style files to use line fonts or PS lines
> supplied as standard parts of LaTeX3.

Given TeX & LaTeX's cross-platform and device-independent fundamental
nature, the need to produce identical output on all devices (to the
obvious limit of that device's resolution) would certainly seem to be
of overriding importance...

The use of style files to modify the system's default behavior would, IM(H)O,
seem to be the wisest approach. In addition to allowing LaTeX to directly or
cleanly support the current wide variety of output devices, it also would
make supporting future output technologies just as straight forward.

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