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From: dezern@uncecs.edu (David H. Dezern)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.text
Subject: Re: Recommendations on buying an Adobe typeface?
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Date: 16 Feb 90 17:21:41 GMT
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Century Old Style is a beuatiful typeface, and I've used it for mathematical
text.  Its appearance reminds me of German mathematical books of the '20's
and '30's.  Unfortunately, the LaserWriter doesn't do such a good job 
reproducing it.

While we're on the subject of typefaces, let me mention that I've tried the
Century Schoolbook typeface that Bitstream offered as a special promotion
a couple of months ago.  I like it better than Adobe's New Century Schoolbook,
and it produces very nice LaserWriter output for regular text, but it
interacts very badly with some of the special features of Microsoft Word,
like the formatting of quotients.  I get the impression that there's something
peculiar about the Bitstream font's fractional widths table.  Has anyone else
noticed problems like this?


David H. Dezern
Department of Mathematics
University of North Carolina at Asheville

e-mail: dezern@uncecs.edu or dezern@ecsvax.bitnet