Proportionally Speaking --by Gregg Taylor Dallas, Texas nmNG REPORTSH A S N E V E R B E E N YUN. Writing reports with proportional fonts is not ouly a drag, it can be downright tedious. Tedious is the best word I can think offor this, since it is neither complicated nor challenging. But in order to get the j o b done, we first need to understand the nuances of working with proporfonal fonts in the Windows environment (or OS/2 for that matter). Most of the text of this publication is printed using proportionally-spaced fonts. This is easily recognized in two ways. First, you could find a "narrow" letter, like "i" and a "wide" letter, like "w", and compare the amount of horizontal space each requires. (Check the word "wide", for instance.) If they print in different widths, a proportional font is being used. If they take the same amount of space on the page (or align into "columns"), then the font is fixed width. T h e following is a fixed-width font: W n All R are APL Fonts (almost) f£xed-width. Notice in the above APL font that the "i" in "fixed" uses the same amount
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Proportionally speaking
Taylor, Gregg
Follow ACM SIGAPL APL Quote Quad
, Volume 28 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1997
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