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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Adobe Type Manager
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Date: 12 Oct 89 00:40:22 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Oct 11 10:56:00 1989



>A couple of points:

>1) No, I don't really have a big problem with the definition of
>   "font".  The disagreement is not over what the correct technical
>   definition of the term is, but rather what its common, colloquial
>   meaning is (i.e. "typeface").  The latter meaning is the one likely to
>   be known to the average Macintosh user who happens across Adobe's
>   ad in MacUser.

I'l tell you what a font is: It describes all the little pieces
of metal that comes in a big wooden box - on the front it would say
"Times Roman 10 point" and that's what it would be. If you wanted
Times Roman 7 point you would go look for the font labeled
"Times Roman 7 point". If you were using a computer, you wouldn't
look for "fonts" - you would look for "files" on a floppy or hard
disk!  :-) :-) :-)

Incidentally, what size IS Adobe's Times Roman intended for - 
all the different sizes it prints out are just scaled versions of
what presumably originated as a copy of one particular size of
a genuine (metal) Times Roman font. The letters of real (metal) 
fonts are usually shaped differently (not scaled versions of one 
another), at least a little, for each font (size of type).

Doug McDonald