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You'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 giv
by javert 16y ago
You'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 16y 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 16y agothere were variable-width fonts in typewriters but that was relatively late in the history of that instrument Interesting, I did not know that.