From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Apr 17 2:37:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 523F937B42C for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2001 02:37:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 83839 invoked by uid 100); 17 Apr 2001 09:37:51 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15068.3823.602852.567433@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 04:37:51 -0500 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Brett Glass , James Howard , Joseph Mallett , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: banner(6) In-Reply-To: <20010417095140.A74385@lpt.ens.fr> References: <20010416191256.R27477@lpt.ens.fr> <20010416193151.U27477@lpt.ens.fr> <4.3.2.7.2.20010416211727.045766e0@localhost> <20010417095140.A74385@lpt.ens.fr> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rahul Siddharthan types: > I have the impression that, traditionally (in the days of movable > type), a general design was (as you say) a "typeface" and a "font" was > a particular set of characters implementing a typeface. Or something > like that. In the computer age, "font" has acquired a slightly > different meaning. In the Adobe/Microsoft age, the distinction > between different sizes of the same typeface seems to have vanished. While I'm on the topic: another point of similarity between the two types of fonts is that they, unlike typefaces, are protected as intellectual property. At least, that's the case unless the recent spate of hacks to the copyright law has changed things. Since designing a typeface takes as much work as writing a symphony or a novel, typeface designers are understandably annoyed that their work, unlike the work of the composer or the writer, can be ripped off by anyone with a digitizer. Anyone who thinks per-copy or per-use compensation is a creators right and not merely a legal privilege should make sure they aren't using fonts that implement a ripped-off typeface. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message