Newsgroups: alt.religion.kibology, comp.fonts
Followup-To: alt.religion.kibology
From: hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 8 May 92 15:33:32 GMT
Subject: Proportional fonts (was Re: Kibo advocates killing of Microsoft)

m...@central.cis.upenn.edu (Mr. Mung) wrote:

> ...why not make ((4T+3H)/5), `seven fifths of the way from Times
> Roman to Helvetica', a font that's even less like Helvetica, in a
> Times-Roman-ish sort of way, than Times Roman is?

You mean ((7T-2H)/5).

((4T+3H)/5) is three-sevenths of the way from Times Roman to
Helvetica, and seven-fifths as fontly.

Unfortunately, I suspect ``fontly'' just means ``big''.

Dan Hoey
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil