RE: death to word

  • From: J R FOX <jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: xywrite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:46:17 -0700 (PDT)


--- On Thu, 4/19/12, Paul Ambos <pambos@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> That is the confusion:  "pitch"
> is a horizontal -- not vertical --
> measurement of fonts, usually expressed in characters per
> inch.  Some
> typesetting programs (but not XyWrite) can adjust the pitch
> (as opposed to
> character width) by inserting microspacing between the
> letters.  

And this can be confused with kerning, which I think Xy never 
had.  (I don't know about Nota Bene, which I have just begun 
to use -- mainly for printing out things where Xy would 
have no easily accessible solution for recent model printers 
or their being connected via USB.)


  Jordan


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