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From: bezanson@adobe.COM (Brian Bezanson)
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Subject: Re: ATM and HP LaserJet II-compaitble printers
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Date: 15 Nov 89 20:04:06 GMT
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In article <2064@network.ucsd.edu> dpaight@weber.UUCP (Dan Paight) writes:
>You can't make an IW into a Laser Writer.  But it ought
>to be possible to make the IW produce a properly spaced apostrophe.
>I don't use ATM (don't own it), and I don't plan to.  But these
>other people you hear complaining sound pretty convincing to me.

What's so special about the apostrophe? I know it doesn't space well, but it
spaces "just as good" without ATM. For an example, I used MacWrite II 1.1,
ATM 1.01 and then on the screen type "n't t's t'l" at 60 points. First in
Geneva, then Helvetica, Chicago, Helvetica-Bold, Monaco, and Courier. The
last 2 being mono-spaced fonts don't help, but the other fonts space the
apostrophy the same way. ATM fonts do look better because the fonts have
better widths and true-er appearance. This is with Fractional Widths on
and using "Curly" quotes.

Well that's my personal input on this one. To get better spacing you need to
add special kerning of hand kern the characters.


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Brian Bezanson                                          bezanson@adobe.com
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