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Date:      Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:13:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>
To:        James Howard <howardjp@well.com>
Cc:        Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: banner(6)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10104181512060.71134-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104180641460.517-100000@well.com>

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On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, James Howard wrote:

:On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Brett Glass wrote:
:
:> That's because Adobe misuses the term. I come from a family which
:> includes several generations of typesetters and type designers. 
:> The correct meaning of the word "font" has existed for hundreds 
:> of years, and abuse by one company can't change it.

:Everything Brett has said so far is confirmed by The Chicago Manual of
:Style.  Just a note.

My grandfather is a printer.  Has a Heidelberg in his garage.  I don't
need to steenkin' Chicago Manual of Style to confirm what Brett's saying.
When he talks about a font, he's talking about something specific like
Helvetica 12pt. medium.

Jamie Bowden

-- 
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Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk>



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