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From: preston@lll-crg.llnl.gov (David R Preston)
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Subject: Re: Why is Courier ugly?
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Date: 20 Mar 91 08:06:31 GMT
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In article <1133@voodoo.UUCP> zombie@voodoo.UUCP (Mike York) writes:
>Unfortunately, the Air Transport Association dictates that manuals for
>airplanes be printed with "a sans-serif monospaced font" which is generally
>interpreted as OCRB.  So that's what we use in our manuals.  What I wouldn't 
>give to use Courier for text paragraphs and Helvetica for illustrations...

Bitstream has a monospaced Helvetica (at least, it's listed in their
catalog, 10/89 printing).
-david

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