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Old 9th November 2008
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Originally Posted by DrJ View Post

I also think that the computer modern font Knuth developed is downright ugly. I understand the motivation for its development, but there is a reason that type designers didn't come up with something like it. I know you can use others, but Times Roman is just a better default (not that it is my favorite either).
And lets not forget it.TeX didn't support pure ASCII for a long time
Unfortunately domination of the TeX is probably due to the fact that TeX was open source while Troff was jealously guarded ATT child until it was too late.
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