Ah yes, but...

Ah yes, but...

Posted Oct 23, 2006 10:47 UTC (Mon) by anselm (subscriber, #2796)
In reply to: Ah yes, but... by jwb
Parent article: Thousands of TeX fonts at your fingertips (Linux.com)

I think you're confusing Metafont with Computer Modern (Knuth's exemplary
font family, implemented in Metafont). Metafont does contain features
that allow a font designer to cater for low-resolution devices (it is all
in the documentation). However, a font like Computer Modern Roman, by
design, only looks good at very high resolutions. Even 600dpi does not
remotely do it justice -- compare a CMR laser printout to, say, the
TeXbook.

Anselm

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