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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
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Subject: Re: Typewriter Emulation Software for the Mac?
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Date: 17 Jan 90 14:51:32 GMT
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In article <25b3ec78.6cbb@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> rcfische@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Raymond C. Fischer) writes:
|I don't beleive this is possible.  Not that the software would be especially
|difficult to write; it probably would take only a day or two.  The problem
|is that the ImageWriter (like most dot-matrix printers) does not print 
|characters one at a time.  It collects an entire line of text then prints
|it all at once.  Thus, characters are a uniform size and evenly spaced.

This is all true, except that the ImageWriters (maybe just the II?) do
have a built in proportional font (not evenly spaced horizontally).  A
corresponding screen font is available with the shareware DA miniWRITER.

	/JBL
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