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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Heiko Oberdiek via texhax wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:4467b8e4-14b8-a1d8-a26b-d23c5561731e@googlemail.com">Font
setup in plain TeX is no fun, one of the reasons not to use it.<br>
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Heiko, with the greatest respect, that is pure FUD ("Fear,
uncertainty and doubt"). I have been setting up fonts in plain TeX
(and more recently, in plain PdfTeX and then plain XeTeX) since the
late mid 80's. I even wrote my own font-handling library, based on
the Kellerman & Smith naming conventions, long before NFSS
existed for LaTeX. Font setup in plain TeX is simple and
straightforward, and even more so in plain XeTeX. By all means sing
the praises of LaTeX, but please do not try to convince others that
plain TeX is anything to be feared or avoided — it is anything but.<br>
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<i>Philip Taylor</i><br>
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