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Article #397Re: New format of CACM
From: Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,319335...
Date: Thu, 09 May 1991 19:13
Date: Thu, 09 May 1991 19:13
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From article <1991May9.183407.9294@mp.cs.niu.edu>, by rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert): > > If those in HQ really want it to be a magazine, and not a journal, can't > they at least model it on a magazine like Scientific American, instead of > on something like PC-Magazine? > The sad thing is, the recent style change in CACM was actually accompanied by the claim that they wanted to take Scientific American as a model of the level of publication they were shooting for! Furthermore, Scientific American was "re-designed" quite recently, including the design of new typefonts for their own use, and remarkably, the article they published on this indicated that one of their inspirations was Knuth's work on his Computer Modern fonts. The result was quite the opposite of what happened to CACM, where essentially every bit of Knuth's advice on typography has been consistently ignored. Doug Jones jones@cs.uiowa.edu (I admit, I've only been reading CACM for 20 years while I've been reading Scientific American for 30, so perhaps I'm prejudiced.)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!uunet!ns-mx!pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu From: jones@pyrite.cs.uiowa.edu (Douglas W. Jones,201H MLH,3193350740,3193382879) Newsgroups: comp.org.acm Subject: Re: New format of CACM Message-ID: <5987@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Date: 9 May 91 19:13:45 GMT References: <1991May9.183407.9294@mp.cs.niu.edu> Sender: news@ns-mx.uiowa.edu Lines: 24