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Re: fontinst with 8y.etx
- To: hshlgaii@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de
- Subject: Re: fontinst with 8y.etx
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@elsevier.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 10:01:34 +0100
- Cc: fontinst@cogs.susx.ac.uk, tex-fonts@math.utah.edu
- In-Reply-To: <35831C21.DCC@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
- References: <35831C21.DCC@mailszrz.zrz.tu-berlin.de>
Hilmar Schlegel writes:
> > But I stress that I have nothing against 8y. I just remain to be
> > convinced that the pain of changing will be outweighed by the
> > possible advantages.
>
> It depends on the purpose: for PDF using scalable fonts and a more
> reliable encoding is kind of basic requirement (at least presently).
>
I think the jury is still out on whether 8y or 8r is more
`reliable'. Since, as I say, I have not met an encoding problem with
8r and PDF, I wait to be convinced
sebastian