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CREATED BY David Ness • LAST EDITED BY David Ness 7740 days AGO

I'll see if I can think of one. For example, TeX's need for virtual fonts suggests some of the depth of the problem. My principal argument was with Joel's (in my view incorrect) idea that ultimately this is pretty simple. I think that's wrong. The TeX people have been grappling with the issue unsatisfactorily (again in my view) for more than 20 years (since TeX `82 at least) and while there's only one Knuth, this means that many pretty good minds have been hitting their heads on the wall over this one for decades and still there are important problems to solve.