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Date:         Tue, 9 Nov 93 14:52:06 LCL
From: Mike Piff <M.Piff@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK>
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Subject:      Re: NF prefix, LaTeX/NFSS compatibility, etc
Status: R


Paul Taylor writes:
%>
%>          A LaTeX user is entitled to take *any* file called
%>          "times.sty" from the International TeX archive,
%>          put it in his macros directory, run his existing
%>          LaTeX implementation with \documentstyle[times]
%>          and expect to get his document printed in Times.
%>

No he isn't entitled to do this! We print on a Laserjet II. How do we get
Times Roman out of that?  The bitmaps do exist on CTAN but they are useless---
some of the characters are broken, others look like Escher staircases. And
where are the MF files?

Mike Piff


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