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Re: 8pt plus symbol?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H Tower Jr.)
Sun Dec 5 18:33:43 2010
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 18:33:39 -0500 (EST)
From: "Leonard H Tower Jr." <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
To: Matthew S Goldstein <austein@MIT.EDU>
cc: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64L.1012051749030.21991@stavromula-beta.mit.edu>
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would have been fun to do again
yiLFS -len
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 17:50:17 -0500 (EST)
From: Matthew S Goldstein <austein@MIT.EDU>
To: Leonard H Tower Jr. <tower@alum.MIT.EDU>
Cc: apo-printshop@mit.edu
Subject: Re: 8pt plus symbol?
We weren't able to find anything easily, but he's fine with us leaving it
out. Thanks!
On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Leonard H Tower Jr. wrote:
> hi matt
>
> be easiest to just leave the plus sign out
>
> i assume you have looked in the grey painted case, nearest where the
> 10x15 chases are, and the dingbat case (lesser slanted case on blue
> wall on top of 2nd bank of cases). you might check all the galley
> trays of cuts by the sample cases
>
> you could make one with 1 or 2pt rules, leads and 6pt 3-em spaces.
> probably have to cut the rules and leads, and have the height off
> center. decker and i did something like this on her train or qual run
> (might have been a plus sign - check the log for kind of job, and look
> for the sample? we might have left it around tied up - phone, text,
> zephyr her? K Decker French <k_french@mit.edu>)
>
> there are some +'s around (dingbat case?) maybe 12 pt. you might
> carefully file the 4 ends down. i would use the vise out front, and
> one of the tiny files - i last saw the files on one of the top shelves
> to th right, in the tool cabinet nearest kresge
>
> phone if you like +1-617-623-7739
>
> yiLFS -len
>
> ps: i'm about an hour away
>
> Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 15:51:08 -0500 (EST)
> From: Matthew S Goldstein <austein@MIT.EDU>
> To: apo-printshop@MIT.EDU
> Subject: 8pt plus symbol?
>
> Does anybody know where I could find this in the shop? Needed for the
> international phone number style on a business card, in 8-pt clearface.
>
> --Matt
>
>
