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- From: eijkhout@cupid.cs.utk.edu (Victor Eijkhout)
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: Paper and fonts (was Re: TeX In Practice)
- Date: 27 Aug 92 02:31:15 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
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- In article <1992Aug26.151652.1@lucy.claremont.edu>, dhosek@lucy.claremont.edu writes:
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- |> > 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.
-