Re: ACM Ada Letters

From: Wes Groleau (groleau_at_freeshell.org)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 17:52:01 -0500

Marin David Condic wrote:

> Wes Groleau wrote:
>
>> Ah, but Word automatically substitutes another font,
>> and Pat can easily change it if it selects an ugly one.
>
> I don't think it would be at all unreasonable for a journal to ask
> authors to use some specific, common fonts. What's wrong with limiting

No, it's perfectly reasonable. I was merely illustrating
that one person's suggested reason (might use a font Pat
doesn't have) is not a very good reason for not using Word.

A _good_ reason might be "it comes from Microsoft." :-) 

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