Re: "Kerning?" (fwd)

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 From: DickWeltz@xxxxxxxx
 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:42:37 -0500 (EST)
 Subject: Re: "Kerning?" (fwd)

 >> May be. I remember many pigeonholes in the composer's lettercase
 that contained only multi-character types. Some pieces may have been
 just interlocked. Most looked like they were cast that way. The ligatures,
 like ij (which in English evolved into "y" with diaeresis, then just
 monosyllabic y) and ffi, were almost certainly cast. <<

 Yes, the f-ligatures were cast, but definitely NOT other combinations
 such as WA, YA, To, etc., although some of these were available as special
 linecasting matrices.

 I never recall seeing ij cast together as part of a normal font sold
 in America, but it is likely that kerning the two (especially in
 photocomposition days) caused the compterniks who designed the ASCII
 character set to imagine that there really is such a character as a y
 with dieresis (no such animal in any modern language).

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