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From: clouds@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Kathy Strong)
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Subject: Re: Type Reunion opinions wanted
Summary: second opinion, and tips for use
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Date: 15 Nov 90 00:08:54 GMT
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In article <4320@lib.tmc.edu> drg@mdaali.cancer.utexas.edu (David Gutierrez) 
jwrites:
>Type Reunion? Haated it!
>
>...
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>2. In order to choose any style of a typeface, you *had* to use a submenu, 
>i.e., in order to choose Times Roman you had to pull down the Font menu, 
>go to Times and then slide over to the submenu and choose Roman. It sounds 
>like a small inconvenience, but it got on my nerves real fast.

Hmm. I sent my opinion of Type Reunion (positive, by the way) to the original
poster in email, but I want to correct a misunderstanding here.

When using fonts with the "standard four" styles (normal, bold, italic, bold
italic), you should NOT have the screen fonts for all four styles installed.
Install ONLY the normal font. If you want to bold or italicize it, do so
through your application's equivalent of the style menu. If you follow this
rule, the only fonts that Type Reunion will assign submenus to are the ones
that DON'T follow the "standard four"--Eras, for example, which comes in
(I believe) Light, Book, Medium, Demi, Bold, and Ultra. Or Futura and 
Futura Condensed. The big font families are the ones that Type Reunion was
created to handle.

By the way, this assumes you are using Adobe Type Manager as well--so that
you can get good screen representations of your bolds and italics even without
screen fonts installed. In my font menu of 30 or so families, only about 
eight have submenus. (Of course, being a fiend for extrabolds and lights,
those are the eight I use most often...)

--Kathy

* "Screen font" = "bitmap font" = "suitcase" in the above posting. 




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