eirikur@amber.DEC (Eirikur Hallgrimsson) (10/05/85)
Posted to net.sources.mac is the Binhex 4 (.HQX) of the Boston font.
I've been searching for something like this for a while. This font
gives exceptionally nice-looking results on the Imagewriter. I got
this from the Red Ryder Support BBS. It appears to be shareware.
This is penultimate version, which is to say that it retains the
dot on lowercase characters with diacritical marks.
Eirikur Hallgrimsson
The short file boston.doc follows -- Yes, it is text-only.
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LETTER QUALITY from the IMAGEWRITER.
Boston is a new font of type that produces letter quality printing on the
Imagewriter.
Boston is more legible than any other font, both on the screen and printed out.
It's even more legible than a daisywheel.
Boston also includes many common symbols that the standard fonts omit, plus
five fractions, and a full complement of Greek letters. Nearly three dozen
extra characters in all. (You'll find a cribsheet of the keyboard layout in
BOSKEY.HQX on CompuServe.)
Boston comes in six sizes, 9-, 10-, 12-, 18-, 20- and 24-point.
Nine-point is comparable in size to elite (12-pitch) typewriting.
Ten-point is comparable in size to pica (10-pitch) typewriting.
Twelve-point is comparable in size to Geneva 12 or New York 12.
The Boston font is copyrighted, and the time involved in producing it
represents part of the designer's (hardly vast) income. So if you use it,
please pay for it. For a license, send $10 to:
Charles E. Maurer
31 Forsyth Avenue South
Hamilton, Ontario L8S 2A4
Canada
IF YOU ALREADY HAVE BOSTON, please check whether you have one of the later
versions. To do this, strike shift/option/7. Earlier versions type a box;
the later versions type a registration symbol (a circled R). The later
versions are distinctly better, and well worth downloading.
Note that there are two later versions. These are almost identical save for
a few of the diacritical accents, so most users won't notice any difference.
But if you type a lot in foreign languages, you may want the improvements.
To tell these versions apart, strike a lower-case i with any diacritical
accent above it. The penultimate one retains the i's dot; the final one
eliminates it.
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Posted: Fri 4-Oct-1985 19:03 Marlborough uncorrected time.
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