triumph of form over content? baloney!

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From: Anon
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 1983 15:40

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Subject: triumph of form over content? baloney!
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    From: harrison%ucbarpa@Berkeley (Michael Harrison)

    Type setting (not to mention font design) be the ultimate triumph
    of form over content.

  Utter nonsense. The purpose of proper typesetting is to make the form
invisible so that people can concentrate on the content. Bad
typesetting is visible; good typesetting is invisible.

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