[Right Wing Professor]

I just marvel at a man who writes for a living describing the difference between nmonospace and professional fonts as 'highly technical'.

It's tantamount to an admission of complete ignorance about his trade.

[SAJ]

It's tantamount to an admission of complete ignorance about his trade.

It's tantamount to an admission of complete ignorance about his trade.

There ya go, Professor. (w!)

:^)

[namvetcav]

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I think you're correct that to spot proportional spacing is not the mark of great technical acumen. However, it doesn't seem too much of an issue if you owned a PC before 1984. Men used to do strange things in the old days. Everybody wanted a $7000 Wang but a "normal guy" like me would own a Kaypro and use WordStar and spend hours to copy a pathetic prop spacing patch into 3.3 so he could control the universe, impress women, and kept faith with the CP/M operating system. OK, things didn't work out, but lots of people wanted attributes like kerning and proportional spacing and they weren't around in the Z80-type world at the time. It is not a big deal to spot these matters if you got into PC's soon after 1979.

[Auntie Dem]

I just marvel at a man who writes for a living describing the difference between nmonospace and professional fonts as 'highly technical'. It's tantamount to an admission of complete ignorance about his trade.

I have come to believe "journalists", (as they deign to call themselves), are the most ignorant people on earth. They may know how to use the language, but they have absolutely no real-world knowledge about ANYTHING! I have therefore concluded their trade really is -- Ignorance.

I worked in the printing industry as an accountant for about six years and I learned more about fonts just passing through the work areas than all the experts at CBS have learned in a lifetime. I was able to spot those memos as frauds immediately, and I would hardly qualify as as a font expert.

[WOSG]

RW Prof: These are the people you flunk out of frosh chemistry, who end up in such professions as liberal MSM journalism; just a guess.