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 -- "It was half way to Rivendell when the drugs began to take hold" Hunter S Tolkien "Fear and Loathing in Barad Dur" Iain Bowen <alaric@alaric.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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