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- From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
- Subject: Re: Why fewer typefaces in Apple LW+ TT
- In-Reply-To: howarth@rice.edu's message of 19 Aug 1992 22:53:03 GMT
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 01:28:06 GMT
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- Jack> == Jack W. Howarth <howarth@rice.edu>
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- Jack> I am wondering if anyone from Apple knows why they failed to
- Jack> include a complete set of typefaces for the TrueType fonts. For
- Jack> instance Courier and Avant Garde are missing Bold and Bold
- Jack> Italic. Just curious if there was a good reason for this.
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- There aren't any. Really.
-
- Avant Garde doesn't have an italic, just an oblique. This is a
- font-weenie's way of saying that you just slant the font over instead of
- having a whole separate font for italics.
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