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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thank you for your considered response,
Boris. I do not seek for one second to suggest that to use fonts
<i>properly</i> (and <i>advisedly</i>) is trivial. But that was
not my point. My point was solely that it should be <i>trivial</i>
to <i>use </i>any font listed in the LaTeX font catalogue — it
should not require package f for font F, package f' for font F'
and so on. There should be a single simple uniform interface that
conceals from the user all of the complexities that arise from
having to support multiple fonts in multiple formats, in multiple
sizes and variants, and so on. All this, of course, for the LaTeX
user — a plain TeX hacker such as myself cannot and should not
expect any such spoon feeding : he (or she) is on their own.<br>
-- <br>
<i>** Phil.</i><br>
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