Re: Paper and fonts (was Re: TeX In Practice)

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From: Victor Eijkhout
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 02:31

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In article <1992Aug26.151652.1@lucy.claremont.edu>, dhosek@lucy.claremont.edu writes:

|> > Bull, Don. Have you ever seen a page printed by Bodoni himself?

|> But how does that page look? 

That page looked better than any other page I've ever seen in
my life. It was the first time that a modern really looked brilliant
to me. (Which must also be due to the fact that this was done
with lead technology, not photo-chemically.)

|> But whatever historical arguments you make, the point cannot be
|> denied that the appearance of your book has suffered because of
|> the typeface/paper combination.

Nope. Just the inking.

(And let's now close this rather private discussion on a public forum.)

|> -dh

Victor.

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