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From: des@yatton.inmos.co.uk (David Shepherd)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: why are all books Times Roman ?
Keywords: typefaces, fonts
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Date: 19 Jun 89 10:43:37 GMT
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In article <485@inmos.co.uk (Richard Stevens) writes:
>Why are almost all technical books done in Times Roman these days ?
>Going through my bookshelf, other than Knuth's books,
>almost everything seems to be in Times Roman, with 10 point
>characters on 12 point spacing.

Once again INMOS inovates. Several years ago our "style" (marketing
I think) decided that 10 pt Helvetica on 11pt spacing with
170mm lines was the way to go (!!!) allong with a home-brew TeX
macro package and we've been lumbered with that ever since
for our documentation.

Subsequently by subversive editing of LaTeX .STY files I changed the 11 pt
spacing to 12 pt (;-)

Now, I tend to use New Century Schoolbook with standard LaTeX .STY
files.

david shepherd
INMOS