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Group: microsoft.public.onenote · Group Profile
Author: Rainald TaeslerRainald Taesler Date: Jul 9, 2006 00:52
Grant Robertson BOGUS.com> shared these words of wisdom:
>> Using Narrow Ruled and 11 pt. Calibri, the type aligns
>> perfectly with the lines.
>
> I sure wish the calibri font had much more math symbols that I
> would actually use.
>
> A) Why aren't all 11 point fonts the same height.
This is not ON specific at all. This is the same issue throughout in
Windows.
> What's the point of haveing point numbers if they aren't consistent?
Ask the Font designers
Honestly speaking: This has to do with basics typography.
"Points" are a scale deriving from the days of lead letters used in
printing.
There are several scales for each font and for font families.
Some run wide (like the Swiss font families like Helvetica [and the
its clone the so-called Arial]), some run narrow like newspaper fonts
(like Times Roman). So a text formatted in Times Roman will contain
app. 20%% more characters compared to a text in Arial.
The same with the height. Each font family is different in so far.
You seem to have the old schemes of "matrix printers" (taken over from
typewriters with a fix height of a font) in mind which were the
platform in DOS (although you seem too young to have experienced that
).
This changed totally once the techniques of computer printing changed
and Rank Xerox (the developers later founded Adobe) developed the
first Laser Printer (the Apple Laser Writer) and PostScript as the
printing definition language. They took the standards from the
printing industry, inc. the unit points. And lots of fonts developed
(initially in PostScript and later in the TrueType format) were taken
over exactly with the specifications from typography (would not only
have been a problem with copyright otherwise).
Fonts have had different height and need different line-spacing since
fonts exists - since the days of Gutenberg .
And OneNote has no specific issues in so far. It's just Windows.
> B) What the heck is up with all the bizzare characters in fonts
> but few basic math symbols?
Same as above. Ask the type foundries .
This is not ON related too.
It's just a question how creative fonts designers are and how big they
estimate the need for technical and mathematical characters. And its a
question of mapping characters to the font tables (numbers ASCII /
ANSI / Unicode).
Rainald
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