kaiping@wri.com (Joe Kaiping) (06/13/91)
I noticed (sadly) that the NeXT Courier Bold and the Apple laserwriter Courier Bold fonts are different. The characters that caused me to notice this are ` and '. The NeXT Courier Bold has Palatino type quotes. They are both slanted in the same direction, but the open quote is heavier on the bottom and the close quote is heavier on top. I really don't like them this way because they look too similar, I prefer opposite slants. I know this may seem picky, but my manager won't accept the NeXT quotes. It's not really a problem to just send the document to a laserwriter, but it would be nice to be able to send it anywhere. So I was wondering if there was a public domain Courier set somewhere that had some decent quotes that I could ftp or nab somehow. I guess we could buy the Courier set from adobe and transfer them to the NeXT, but I thought I'd check here first. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. --
tj@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Terry Jones) (06/13/91)
>Quotes changed on NeXT Courier.....
Courier itself has changed from the old LaserWriter. The new version
is no longer a stroke font. MANY things look different. Letter shapes
are changed. Serifs are VERY different. Courier is not the same Courier
any more. Getting a new Courier from Adobe might not help.
Getting an OLD Courier might help!
tjjs@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jay Sekora) (06/14/91)
> The NeXT Courier Bold has Palatino type quotes. They are both > slanted in the same direction, but the open quote is heavier > on the bottom and the close quote is heavier on top. I really > don't like them this way because they look too similar, I prefer > opposite slants. I know this may seem picky, but my manager > won't accept the NeXT quotes. An obvious thing to try is converting all open single quotes to grave accents before printing. If you usually print from Edit you could make a user pipe (with tr) to do that. The grave accent is a bit lighter, but doensn't look bad. -- _____________________________________________________________________ Jay Sekora | internet: js@princeton.edu Information Centers Consultant | bitnet: js@pucc.bitnet Princeton University | phone 609/258-6007