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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 23:02:03 +0200
From: Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@usta.de>
To: discuss@mdocml.bsd.lv
Subject: Re: Fonts?
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Hi Dieter,

>   Fear not, that is my goal (and Kristaps, I presume) as well.  Using
> either Times or Palatino ensures the font's availability on any sane
> PostScript (or PDF) viewer.

Sounds good.

>   For now, one hardcoded font is certainly fine.  However, I do see an
> argument for making fonts selectable at run time: embedding the
> resulting pages in a larger work, so they fit with the layout of other
> parts of that work (e.g. book).  But let's not worry about that at the
> moment.

Hm, yes, maybe.

Thanks for your explanations!

>   I'm confident that my know how in this area (typography and
> PostScript) is sufficient to solve these problems.  However, I can't
> reply to mails with the speed you two display.  So, please be patient,
> and give me at least two days to reply.

Oh, don't worry, that's only because we are at hackathon speed.
Usually, i'm not that fast at responding either.

Yours,
  Ingo
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