On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
> Alan Stone wrote:
>
>> Are fonts like men, or like women ?  ;O)
>
> fonts are simply complex ...

Ok, they're like women then.

Alan


> - no real consistency (esp in names)
> - complicted by the fact that we want (in tex) some coherent system
> - complicated even more by math
> - and by incomplete fonts
> - and ...
> - and ...
>
> to some extend luatex/mkiv is making it a bit more convenient but even then
> ..
>
> - fonts can have truckloads of features
> - and related bugs
> - and ...
>
>
> Hans
>
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