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Date:         Wed, 3 Nov 93 15:10:25 EST
From: Michael Barr <barr@TRIPLES.MATH.MCGILL.CA>
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Subject:      Why I still use ofss
Status: R


I am neither the most sophisticated nor the least sophisticated
user of latex (and by a wide margin in both directions, I would
estimate).  After a fair amount of effort, I finally figured out
how the ofss works and made it work for me.  I have added fonts
(cmssbx that I use for real, complex, &c., eufm, rfsr), made
up 14, 17 and 20 pt styles (and figured out how to get article.sty
to load them) and made cmex fonts grow in size properly.  All the
recent and not so recent discussion of nfss leads me to believe
that if I adopt it, I am back to ground 0.  I have never used
awk or sed and I would really rather avoid having to learn new
languages.  The ofss works fine for me and I see no reason to change.
I suppose I will eventually have to adopt latex 3, but I will not
be overjoyed at the prospect and I am still not sure what it is
going to do for me.

Michael Barr