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Originally Posted by Man Eating Duck
@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? |
No, different l
characters had different widths, just as you stated.
(I set both
Hot and
Cold type in High school. I was going to learn plate making, but I graduated
)