Asri-unix.891 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:sri-unix!RWK@MIT-MC Thu Mar 4 04:25:15 1982 Back to basic? Force all us humans to read machine-format formulae for the sake of our friends at Xerox who seem to lack fixed-width fonts? Seems to be a case of blindly embracing new technology while throwing away the advantages of the old. There's a lot of fixed-width formated text in this world, so I always use a single fixed-width font for reading (and writing) mail. I don't use my integral sign key either, and thus we can communicate both ways. But I don't want to start a discussion about message-formatting technology (at least, not in this forum). I do want to point out that it is an imposition to expect the rest of the world to read fortran-gubble with naked eyeball. -- ((B*o-b)/(K*e/(r+n-(log(s))) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.