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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Universal font standard
Message-ID: <7645@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 10 Apr 88 00:28:50 GMT
References: <3178@gryphon.CTS.COM> <219@ateng.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <219@ateng.UUCP> chip@ateng.UUCP (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
>How about a format that describes the shape (outline) of the character.
>...
I happen to like (1) if you intend to scale the font,

Well, I don't!  Isomorphic fonts (ones that are simply linearly
scaled for different sizes) look ugly except near their original
design size.  If we're going to put a lot of effort into font
description, let's do it right.