-=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 01-07-06  01:32 <=-   
      
    MK> Dec 27 15:37 05, Nancy Backus wrote to Danny Ceppa:   
      
   I see my messages FINALLY made it out of Chowda...!  Turned out to be a   
   glitch in the way the messages were going out/being received at the next   
   point....    
      
    NB> What I've needed the fonts for was making the overhead transparencies   
    NB> for illustrating talks/lectures or for putting up the words to songs    
    NB> for a group to sing, to get the letters large enough to read from a   
    NB> distance.   
      
    MK> So why does the computer need to display that other then perhaps the   
    MK> basic layout?  Shouldn't only the printer matter that it gets the right   
    MK> fonts?    
      
   I'm using MicroEMACS as my text editor, so there is no way that I know   
   of to send the printer any information about fonts.  I think the printer   
   I have has some latitude there, but I don't think that the built-in   
   choices include larger sized fonts than pretty much "normal" printing.     
      
   For looking at it for myself on the computer, I don't need to go back   
   into the gui program, I just use browse, unless I need to see how it   
   spaces on the transparency.   
      
    MK> Add to this people who don't even use computers for that   
    MK> particular reason (ie no printer or a printer just for printing   
    MK> straight text) and it seems to me that the same computer can be useful   
    MK> for a wider variety of reasons, most of which may not even need an   
    MK> overbloated OS, or worse, an overbloated OS wannabe.    
      
   Oh, I certainly agree.  :)   
      
    NB> For regular work, straight ascii is certainly sufficient.  :)   
      
    MK> I have one font I use for everything on the computer.  It is a large   
    MK> one that I can read without glasses or standing on my head squinting   
    MK> just right while chanting 'Why, why, why ....'   
      
   I just have whatever it is that the computer normally has... and   
   whatever is set up in the programs I use.  As far as I know, I don't   
   have any place to choose anything else.   
      
   It's larger now, now that we have a larger monitor screen...     
      
   ttyl      neb   
      
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