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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
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Subject: Re: looking for Amiga fonts
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Date: Mon, 14-Sep-87 14:41:05 EDT
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In article <852@cadnetix.UUCP> childs@cadnetix.UUCP (David Childs) writes:
>A 'Point' is an inch.  A pixel (dot on the screen) is 1/72 of an inch on
>a monitor with 72dpi.  A one 'point' font fits one character per inch.  An
>8 point font fits 8 characters per inch.  His new branch of mathematics is
>called division.  Divide the number of PIXELS per inch by the number of
>PIXELS per character give the point size of the font.  Therefore, on a 72dpi
>monitor 8 is 9, 9 is 8, 10 is ~7.

I know absolutely nothing about typography and fonts etc, but I do know that
when I use troff or have something typeset the bigger the point size the
bigger the letters. That empirical knowledge disagrees with David's statements
above, I suspect David is mistaken. The type people talk all the time about
'ems' and 'picas' all I wanted were some 'ems' and 'ems', peanut please.

>On an unrelated topic.  Bryce Nesbitt writes "...either the Commodore-Amiga/
>Metacomco assembler or the new Metacomco Macro Assembler is a prerequisite
>for any Amiga assembly work."  (Amiga World - Sept/Oct 1987)  Is this true?
>Bryce?  Do these assemblers come with something that the other assemblers
>don't have?  I need to know soon, so I can buy one right away if necessary.

Yes, no, and maybe. According to the Ad in Amiga World the mythical Lattice
C compiler version 4.0 will include an Amiga compatible assembler. Others
have used both the HiSoft and GenAm assemblers successfully, also there is
a Freely Redistributable assembler that works well. The only true requirement
is that the assembler can read in the Commodore include files, and support
the macros therein, and can write an object file that some linker understands.

>Thanks for your time.  I hope I'm not wrong about the point size stuff.

Your welcome, I think you are wrong about the point stuff though.
--Chuck McManis
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