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Subject: triumph of form over content? baloney!
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Date: Sun, 23-Oct-83 11:40:51 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 23 11:40:51 1983
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Date: Saturday, 22 October 1983 23:16:27-PDT
To: harrison%ucbarpa@Berkeley (Michael Harrison)
Cc: laser-lovers@Washington
Subject: triumph of form over content? baloney!
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 21 Oct 83 15:26:31 pdt.
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From: Brian Reid <reid@Glacier>
Sender: Brian Reid <reid@su-glacier>

    From: harrison%ucbarpa@Berkeley (Michael Harrison)

    Type setting (not to mention font design) be the ultimate triumph
    of form over content.

  Utter nonsense. The purpose of proper typesetting is to make the form
invisible so that people can concentrate on the content. Bad
typesetting is visible; good typesetting is invisible.