From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 2 6:54:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from moo.sysabend.org (moo.sysabend.org [209.0.55.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2726637BF17 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 06:54:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ragnar@sysabend.org) Received: by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 3495C755B; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 06:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by moo.sysabend.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E201D89; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 06:56:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 06:56:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Jamie Bowden To: Brett Glass Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Punctuation conventions (was: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles fortunes) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20000601202115.04a03780@localhost> Message-ID: Approved: yep X-representing: Only myself. X-badge: We don't need no stinking badges. X-obligatory-profanity: Fuck X-moo: Moo. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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