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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: HELP! Bug in blue book ?
Summary: Proportional space is thin
Message-ID: <516@dino.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 6 Feb 90 03:16:27 GMT
References: <1006@manta.NOSC.MIL> <1744@adobe.UUCP>
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Organization: Iowa State Univ. Computation Center
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In article <1744@adobe.UUCP> jeynes@adobe.UUCP (Ross A. Jeynes) writes:
}In article <1006@manta.NOSC.MIL> grantk@manta.NOSC.MIL (Kelly J. Grant) writes:
}>what I did.  I was using the Circular Text,...
 
}There is a pretty common mistake that people make when typing in this 
}program.  Because the text is Helvetica (i.e. a proportional font), the 
}following line is often mis-typed since the space character isn't as wide
}as the other characters:
 
}   () dup 0 charcode put outsideplacechar
 
}should really be:
 
}   ( ) dup 0 charcode put outsideplacechar
}%  (^add space here)
 
    Ah yes, that one took my a while to find too....
    I pencilled (penciled?) in a ? in our copy to spare anyone else
    the trouble...

      (?) dup 0 charcode ....

     since it doesn't really matter what character you stick in there
     as it is only a placeholder (IMHO this is something the author
     should have done in the first place).

     Why do people use proportional fonts for programs in books and
     documentation!!!  In a "previous life" I worked for "User Services"
     and we always printed the examples/code in a fixed width font because
     there are a lot of people out there who get upset if they can't type
     it in EXACTLY like they see it.

John Hascall