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Re: Reg Day Card run challenges - 8 pt vs 10 pt @ sign
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
Mon Mar 7 19:56:24 2005
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 19:51:16 -0500 (EST)
From: tower@alum.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
To: jtu@mit.edu, gjordan@mit.edu, sasen@mit.edu
CC: apo-printshop-mtg@charon.LOCAL
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.58L.0501301524350.25767@apo.mit.edu> (jtu@MIT.EDU)
Reply-To: tower@alum.MIT.EDU
Hi jtu, sasen, and Grant,
I finally have time to do the keystrokes about the challenges of the
Reg Day Card run.
I'm going to go through and reply to your individual emails and then
email about my inspection of the block.
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 15:26:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Jennifer Tu <jtu@MIT.EDU>
I tried locking up the text and failed. To whoever's coming in
after me --- the problem is probably with the very last line (has
an @ sign that was 8pt that I had to replace to match the text size
of the line), which is now too long and causing everything else to
be too loose.
The thing to do is to remove 1/2 the space from each end of the line,
that is the difference in width between the 8pt and 10pt @ sign.
It's easier going in the other direction, as you can hold both pieces
of type, and fill the gap, then put the filling spacers into the line.
Putting the whole line into a composing stick, and getting the spacing
firm in the stick, produces easier, more consistent results then doing
it on the stone.
In practice, you might have to replace quite a few spaces/quads to get
the line tight again.
BTW, inserting leads below, above, or both to have different type
heights on the same set line is a technique that is used in setting
type.
yiLFS -len
