It's a way of setting both the height and the width of the type. You need a laser printer capable of Postscript printing. The argument of the command sets pitch first, the width second, e.g., SZ 11PT,12Pt. This form of the command works in XY4 & Signature, but not in NB. where one's only option is the single number, e.g., SZ 12PT.
Frank. On 4/17/2012 6:04 PM, Paul Ambos wrote:
What is the difference between pitch and width and how would one adjust those aspects in XyWrite? Regards, Paul Ambos pambos@xxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Frank Brownlow Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 7:03 PM To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: death to word I should have been more exact--what I meant by fully scaleable typesetting is the ability to set both the pitch and the width of the type. Some years ago now, a publisher asked me for camera-ready copy, sent me his standard specs.,& Xy allowed me to produce a page every bit as good as his because of the fully scaleable typesetting. The command is still available in NB, but it doesn't work because--I guess--printing now goes through Windows instead of DOS, and one's stuck with what Windows will do. So for really professional typesetting and formatting one has to go to a full publishing program, whereas XY used to do it all. Frank Brownlow
