Re: ACM Ada Letters

[Wes Groleau <groleau@freeshell.org>]

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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