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September 2004, Week 3

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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 17 Sep 2004 00:09:23 EDT
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Denys writes:

> I found this
>
>  http://homepage.mac.com/cfj/newcomer/index.htm
>
>  Warning, this page falls under the heading "more than you ever wanted to
>  know about fonts."

That page contains nothing but crap. No computer produced that text. All you
need do is look at the baseline of the letters in the images. They vary up and
down in the manner that mechanical typewriters produce text. No electronic
text-setting mechanism has ever done anything like that.

Wirt Atmar

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