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Actually, fixed-width fonts arose with the typewriter, which is how these sorts of differences have had time to get established. Variable-width fonts basically
by billswift 15y ago
Actually, fixed-width fonts arose with the typewriter, which is how these sorts of differences have had time to get established. Variable-width fonts basically didn't exist except in professionally published documents before computers and word processing.
- javert 15y agoYou're right that fixed-width fonts would have arisen with the typewriter, my mistake. Variable-width fonts basically didn't exist except in... You're not giving enough credit to the printing press. Consider newspapers and books (even the Bible, which practically everybody read), which (I imagine) were printed with variable-width fonts for centuries, right from "the beginning" (i.e. Gutenburg).
- ghaff 15y agoRight--but newspapers and books are "professionally published documents." Latterly, there were variable-width fonts in typewriters but that was relatively late in the history of that instrument.
- javert 15y agothere were variable-width fonts in typewriters but that was relatively late in the history of that instrument Interesting, I did not know that.