dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) (04/25/87)
What print pitches do the following mean? I assume ELITE is 10, FINE is compressed mode. Is PICA 12? (Thanks to help from C-A, I've got my printer driver working and am now figuring out the fine points). PICA ELITE FINE Also, (and this is very important!!). How big is the buffer supplied to DoSpecial()??? .. My tab initialization takes about 140 bytes. Thanks, -Matt
andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel) (04/27/87)
In article <8704242353.AA07610@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes: (question about compressed mode and super/subs) if you've got it, use it. ) >What print pitches do the following mean? ELITE is 10, PICA is 12, and FINE is about 16. >Also, (and this is very important!!). How big is the buffer supplied to >DoSpecial()??? .. My tab initialization takes about 140 bytes. the buffer is 256 bytes long. > -Matt andy -- andy finkel {ihnp4|seismo|allegra}!cbmvax!andy Commodore/Amiga /or/ pyramid!amiga!andy } "Do not meddle with the affairs of wizards, for it makes them soggy and hard to light." Any expressed opinions are mine; but feel free to share. I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.
dpz@paul.RUTGERS.EDU (David P. Zimmerman) (04/27/87)
> From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel) > ELITE is 10, PICA is 12, and FINE is about 16. Whoops, what? The standard Elite and Pica that I know of are 12 and 10 pitch respectively, not the other way around. dpz -- David P. Zimmerman rutgers!dpz dpzis prled itte
stever@videovax.UUCP (04/28/87)
In article <8704242353.AA07610@cory.Berkeley.EDU>, Matt Dillon (dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU) writes: > What print pitches do the following mean? I assume ELITE is 10, FINE > is compressed mode. Is PICA 12? (Thanks to help from C-A, I've got > my printer driver working and am now figuring out the fine points). PICA is 10 per inch and ELITE is 12 per inch. FINE depends on your printer. Steve Rice ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- new: stever@videovax.tv.Tek.com old: {decvax | hplabs | ihnp4 | uw-beaver | cae780}!tektronix!videovax!stever
upl@puff.WISC.EDU (Future Unix Gurus) (04/29/87)
In article <450@john.paul.RUTGERS.EDU> dpz@paul.RUTGERS.EDU (David P. Zimmerman) writes: >> From: andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel) > >> ELITE is 10, PICA is 12, and FINE is about 16. > >Whoops, what? The standard Elite and Pica that I know of are 12 and >10 pitch respectively, not the other way around. > Actually, you're both right. If I recall my Jr Highschool printing, 12 characters/inch = 10 pt type and 10 char/inch = 12 pt type. I've seen pitch used in manuals to mean either. I assume pitch does have a real definition, but most writers of word processor docs don't seem to know it. (And nethier do I. Would someone like to adress this? Please give a reference if you do.) Just another of Murphy's little oddities! Jeff Kesselman captain@uhura.cs.wisc.edu or upl@puff.cs.wisc.edu [Lines added to make RN happy!] . . . .
andy@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (Andy Finkel) (04/29/87)
PICA is 10/inch and ELITE is 12/inch.
(fingers got ahead of brain again...)
andy
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I disclaim all responsibilities, all shapes, all sizes, all colors.johnth@batcomputer.UUCP (04/30/87)
In article <724@puff.WISC.EDU> upl@puff.WISC.EDU (Future Unix Gurus) writes: >In article <450@john.paul.RUTGERS.EDU> dpz@paul.RUTGERS.EDU (David P. Zimmerman) writes: > .... If I recall my Jr Highschool printing, >12 characters/inch = 10 pt type and 10 char/inch = 12 pt type. > >I've seen pitch used in manuals to mean either. > >Jeff Kesselman >captain@uhura.cs.wisc.edu Your close, both point (pt) and pica (pc) are a unit of size. 1 inch = 72.27 pt 1 pc = 12 pt It is common to refer to text fonts by there height in points hence 10pt roman, etc. Pitch is usually used to refer to the number of character per inch. While this is related to the height of a letter it is not a fixed relationship. A flexible type setting program will let you print 12pt roman type at 5 char/inch, 6char/inch, ..., 11.5char/inch, ...etc. Many of these will look terrible but that is your choice. The situation is of course much more complicated when you use proportional fonts where each character will have its own natural width. Jeff wanted references so I'll suggest. 1)The TEXbook, Donald Knuth 2) LN03 Users Manual, DEC. I also assume that any good word processor which works with many different kinds of fonts would discuss this. John Thurtell johnth@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu p8tj@cornelld.bitnet
stever@videovax.UUCP (05/05/87)
In article <1769@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>, Andy Finkel (andy@cbmvax.UUCP) writes: > ELITE is 10, PICA is 12, and FINE is about 16. Andy already caught the first two (PICA is 10 characters per inch and ELITE is 12). But beware of the definition of FINE! On my JX-80, compressed print is 17.16 characters per inch. . . Steve Rice ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- new: stever@videovax.tv.Tek.com old: {decvax | hplabs | ihnp4 | uw-beaver | cae780}!tektronix!videovax!stever