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- Subject: Re: Desktop Publishing, Fonts, and Submissions
- Organization: The Somewhat Contagious Operation, Inc.
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:32:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.073231.21026@sco.COM>
- Keywords: desktop publishing fonts submissions
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- In article <1992Sep9.150257.4287@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov> thigpen@lambda.msfc.nasa.gov (Keith Thigpen) writes:
- >There was a thread a while ago that addressed the issue of font selection,
- >(actually the entire issue of dressing up a submission using DTP). At the
- >time I was unable to get to the net but saw some of the subject lines.
- >
- >Is is standard to use Courier font? I hope not. It may be readable, but it
- >seems so, uh... pedestrian.
- >
- >Anyway, what were the conclusions of this thread?
- >--
-
- Just when you thought it was safe to go back to that big old house
- on top of the hill ...
-
- Just when you thought the monster was dead for good, a stake driven
- through its heart, garlic bulbs stuffed in its oropharyngeal orifice,
- buried at a cross-roads in all its gory splendour ...
-
- It's back!
-
- The Thread From Hell!
-
- Keith: there were two general responses to your question. The
- traditionalists: ``thou shalt type double-spaced on one side of the
- paper in twelve point courier, or thy manuscript shall be cast into the
- waste-paper basket of oblivion'' ... and the anti- traditionalists:
- ``as long as it's readable, _go_ for that super-duper near-typeset
- quality Garamond typeface that's been cluttering up your font directory!
- Make your investment pay!''
-
- I think the split in opinions is significant. I know some editors who
- spend all their time copy-editing with typeset-grade documents, so
- logically it's not impossible. But on the other hand, some of the old
- fogies refuse to read anything that doesn't look as if it was prepared
- on a typewriter. So what you send them depends on who you are and who
- they are. If you've never submitted a story before, and the editor
- you're targetting is a professional editor who you've never met (and who
- therefore has no reason to give you a special reading), you _might_ be
- prejudicing them against you by turning in a typeset MS. Probably less
- so than a few years ago, but it's worth worrying about. On the other
- hand, if the editor you're submitting to is one of your drinking buddies
- who's editing this neat anthology and wants you to send something in,
- that's a different matter.
-
- When sending an MS to an editor I know (which is almost all of them in
- the UK), I use one of my normal drafts (in Times Roman, which I find a
- lot easier on my eyes than Courier -- hint, I have eye trouble and the
- serifs make word shape identification easier). But if I'm sending an MS
- to someone I don't know and who doesn't know me, I run off a version in
- Courier. Just in case ...
-
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