Re: death to word

[Frank Brownlow fbrownlo@xxxxxxxx]

It's a way of setting both the height and the width of the type. You
need a laser printer capable of Postscript printing. The argument of the
command sets pitch first, the width second, e.g., SZ 11PT,12Pt. This
form of the command works in XY4 & Signature, but not in NB. where one's
only option is the single number, e.g., SZ 12PT.


Frank.

On 4/17/2012 6:04 PM, Paul Ambos wrote:

> What is the difference between pitch and width and how would one adjust
> those aspects in XyWrite?
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul Ambos
> pambos@xxxxxxxx
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx [mailto:xywrite-bounce@xxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Frank Brownlow
> Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 7:03 PM
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> Subject: death to word
>
> I should have been more exact--what I meant by fully scaleable
> typesetting is the ability to set both the pitch and the width of the
> type. Some years ago now, a publisher asked me for camera-ready copy,
> sent me his standard specs.,& Xy allowed me to produce a page every bit
> as good as his because of the fully scaleable typesetting. The command
> is still available in NB, but it doesn't work because--I guess--printing
> now goes through Windows instead of DOS, and one's stuck with what
> Windows will do. So for really professional typesetting and formatting
> one has to go to a full publishing program, whereas XY used to do it all.
>
> Frank Brownlow