> Well, setting whole books in fixed-width has never been the norm. In books, I agree. Even Gutenberg's press had variable width "types". However not everyone

> Well, setting whole books in fixed-width has never been the norm. In books, I agree. Even Gutenberg's press had variable width "types". However not everyone reads books regularly and fixed width was all that was available in offices (well, that or handwritten documents). So for a great many people like myself, fixed width typefaces were still the norm.