From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Wed Dec 03 2003 - 16:05:33 EST
At 08:19 AM 12/3/2003, Arcane Jill wrote:
>This should really be in a FAQ somewhere on the Unicode web site,
>methinks. One thing - the fonts print spectacularly well, but don't seem
>to display well on the screen (at least, not in Microsoft Word). Any idea
>why that might be?
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/hinting/hinting.htm
If you have an LCD screen, ClearType can significantly improve the display
of even poorly hinted fonts, but hinting in the y-direction remains very
important even then.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
Theory set out to produce texts that could not be processed successfully
by the commonsensical assumptions that ordinary language puts into play.
There are texts of theory that resist meaning so powerfully ... that the
very process of failing to comprehend the text is part of what it has to offer
- Lentricchia & Mclaughlin, _Critical terms for literary study_
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