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Originally Posted by theducks
You must be really old 
All the metal type I set in High School was variable (OK about 4 distinct) widths. Ligatures as shown above, tuck adjacent characters in under the previous. (saving space ?) |
@theducks: Actually I've never set any type, but working as a techie in a publishing house tends to make these kinds of facts seep in. Being incurably curious doesn't help
I know that types had different widths (m and l, for instance), but are you saying that the same type, ie an 'f', came in different widths? I still don't understand how you could make something like the ligature below width separate types?
