Re: Unicode reference fonts

From: Michael Everson (everson@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu Jul 30 1998 - 08:48:23 EDT

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Ar 04:34 -0700 1998-07-30, scríobh Mark H. David:
>>Similarly, few font designers know that it is very good practice
>>to give all digits the same width as the space character, because
>>this makes tables look much better.
>
>Huh? What font designers don't know this? Maybe software
>engineers don't, but real font designers?

I wholeheartedly concur.

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