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In article <1992Aug25.131542.1@hmcvax.claremont.edu>, dhosek@hmcvax.claremont.edu writes:
|> In article <l9kqsnINN7kb@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu>, eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout) writes:

|> > If I would have had any say in the choice of paper I would have
|> > opted for parchment, in real leather binding :-)
|> 
|> Probably would have taken Baskerville even worse. Today's smooth
|> papers are largely an outgrowth of the demands of the
|> transitionals and moderns as well as certain illustrative
|> printing processes.

Bull, Don. Have you ever seen a page printed by Bodoni himself?
I have. (If you ever get to Antwerpen, Belgium go see the Plantijn
museum. It makes people like you and me positively drool. They
have some neat samples of old printing there, by Plantijn and
some others. Also lots of old equipment.)
That paper is of high quality, but nowhere near as smooth as what
is used nowadays, for instance in my book :-) And Bodoni's type
is much more demanding that Baskerville.

|> -dh

Victor.