Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 06:56:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10006020654530.88650-100000@moo.sysabend.org> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601202115.04a03780@localhost>
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On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Brett Glass wrote: :My late father, who worked as an advertising production manager and :design consultant, spent much of his life choosing fonts and faces for :printed matter. My grandfather, an engraver, created fonts for the :engraved signs and labels used on military equipment -- including :the controls in airplane cockpits -- during WWII. (Needless to say, :these had to be VERY readable.) My father's brother, who is still :alive, still does advertising and production work. Other more :distant relatives have done type design. In short, I come from a family :of typesetters, printers, engravers, and type designers. I therefore know :whereof I speak here. Yes, but have you personally ever handset type for a letter press? I miss my grandfather's Heidelberg. Beautiful machine. Jamie Bowden -- "Of course, that's sort of like asking how other than Marketing, Microsoft is different from any other software company..." Kenneth G. Cavness To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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