X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["1337" "Fri" "27" "November" "1998" "16:22:50" "+0100" "Hans Aberg" "haberg@MATEMATIK.SU.SE" nil "27" "Re: What is \"base\" LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA18719; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:27:30 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <3.47A59C44@listserv.gmd.de>; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:27:25 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411738 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:27:17 +0100 Received: from mail0.nada.kth.se (mail0.nada.kth.se [130.237.222.70]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00272 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:27:00 +0100 (MET) Received: from [130.237.37.82] (sl07.modempool.kth.se [130.237.37.27]) by mail0.nada.kth.se (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA25975 for ; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:26:55 +0100 (MET) X-Sender: su95-hab@mail.nada.kth.se References: <199811262254.IAA20689@bigted.maths.uq.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-ID: Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <13918.48084.843833.165507@srahtz> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 16:22:50 +0100 From: Hans Aberg Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: What is "base" LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2961 At 14:48 +0000 1998/11/27, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: >Hans Aberg writes: > > Experimenting with laserprinting showed that 300 dpi is too low for > > displaying fonts correctly, so one needs at least 600 dpi for that. But to > > be on the sure side, laser probably want 1200 dpi. > > >i swear to you, i was _happy_ with 300 dpi for at least 7 years. its >nonsensical, IMHO, to say that 300 dpi cannot display fonts >correctly. *some* fonts come out badly, most don't Well, that's what I meant: For hyperfine fonts and such, one must have 600 dpi. > > So, before that happens, it will not be possible to design documents to be > > read on the screen if that is to contain the (graphical) information we are > > used to on paper. >how does this follow at all? are you telling me you cannot read 24pt >Lucida New Math on screen? Believe it or not, 24pt Lucida New Math is not convenient for displaying math formulas: One should use 10 pt, and regardless how you magnify it to see the details, necessary in math as a tiny dot usually means something different than something quite close to a dot, it is not very convenient. Hans Aberg * Email: Hans Aberg * Home Page: * AMS member listing: