From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Characters per inch with ConTexT
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:18:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D35271.4000205@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.WNT.0.82.0702141007190.820@nqvgln>
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>
> I guess someone made the requirements in 1950 or 1960, and others are
> blindly copying them. Maybe, I should typeset everything in monotype
> font :)
I remember we had a ball-based typewriter at Kluwer Academic that had
variable width characters as well as different fonts: one per ball.
We had a whole bunch of these balls in a cardboard box. So maybe,
they even had variant widths like Times10 @ 10cpi, Times10 @ 12cpi ?
Best, Taco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-14 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-14 0:16 Aditya Mahajan
2007-02-14 8:02 ` Taco Hoekwater
2007-02-14 15:14 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-02-14 16:26 ` Hans Hagen
2007-02-14 18:18 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
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