Re: [math-fun] becoming a 21st century mathematician

DVI, the output format of TeX, supports outline fonts.

So why is it that math papers, produced through LATEX, always have the WORST fonts!? I have seen comments that this is because some people haven't updated to the 1998 version of LATEX or something, but it KEEPS HAPPENING. What is the exact deal?

When creating pdf files, try adding -Ppdf to the arguments of dvips see e.g. http://dsanta.users.ch/resources/type1.html A (good) alternative is pdflatex, which creates a pdf directly from you LaTeX file (if you use figures you have to take care). Christoph