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From: Scott Schwartz schwartz@gal...
Subject: acme font
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 1995 16:49:54 -0400

Felix Lee <flee@tel...> writes:
| since proportional fonts screw up diagrams in comments, the solution
| is to use device-independent diagrams in comments.  bitmaps are no
| good.  postscript would be ok.  (whoops, that should be "pOSTsCRIPT")
| 
| and your programming/editing environment should know how to interpret
| these embedded diagrams, and automatically pop up a picture for you.

Oberon does all that.