G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> So maybe they had access to a CAT-8 after all, and used a whopping 5
> different font plates. Or they used a CAT-4 and had to compose many
> pages in two passes. That would have been mightily tedious.
Are you certain that the bold in that book is real B font and no
Hi again John,
> I only meant "professional" insofar as aptitude with graphics is concerned.
> I won't accept money; I'm offering my labour out of love for typography,
> computer history and its preservation, and of course, the technology that
> got Unix the funding it needed to revolutionise comp
John Gardner wrote:
> I'm a professional graphic designer with access to commercial typeface
> authoring software. Send me the highest-quality and most comprehensive
> scans of a C/A/T-printed document, and I'll get to work.
Are you offering to donate your labor in terms of typeface design, or
wi
G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> Right. Nowadays we call these (and other measurements besides width)
> the "font metrics".
Not just "nowadays": font metrics has always been the standard term,
including original troff days. But I specifically said "spacing widths"
because it is the _only_ metric t
G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> This sort of broad, nonspecific, reflexive derogation of groff (or GNU
> generally) is unproductive and frequently indicative of ignorance.
I don't have enough spoons to engage in political fights any more, so
I'll just focus on technical aspects.
> The C/A/T's font
